Jordan Eldredge

Opera stuff looking for good home (free)

Opera Libretto

The other day I responded to an ad for free opera libretti and magazines on Craigslist. The woman was trying to find a good home for about eight boxes of what turned out to be her deceased friend's libretti, Opera News, and San Francisco Opera programs.

The libretti are going in to my library (more on that later) but the rest is of little interest to me, as I don't have the time to go through them. The woman who died was a life long opera fan so these items span a range of dates. I would imagine that the programs especially have some value as collectible items. Let me know if you are interested in rooting through them. They are yours if you want them.

As for the libretti, there were about 41 of them. I got them because, as a singer, they can be VERY helpful in translating arias and entire roles. If you are ever interested in borrowing any of them, I have listed my complete collection below:

  • Beethoven - Fidelio

  • Bellini - La Sonnambula

  • Britten - Billy Budd

  • Britten - Peter Grimes

  • Donizetti - La fille du régiment

  • Gounod - Faust

  • Handle - Orlando

  • Henze - Elegy for Young Lovers

  • Imbrie - Angle of Repose

  • Janáček - Jenůfa

  • Lehár - The Merry Widow

  • Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci

  • Mascangni - Cavalleria Rusticana

  • Massenet - Thaïs

  • Massenet - Cendrillon

  • Massenet - Esclarmonde

  • Massenet - Le Cid

  • Massenet - Werther

  • Meyerbeer - L'Africaine

  • Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea

  • Mozart - Così fan tutte

  • Mozart - Don Giovanni

  • Mozart - Idomeneo (2x)

  • Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (2x)

  • Mozart - The Magic Flute (2x)

  • Puccini - Gianni Schicchi (x2)

  • Puccini - Il Tabarro

  • Puccini - La bohème

  • Puccini - Nabucco

  • Puccini - Turandot

  • Reimann - Lear

  • Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

  • Rossini - La Cenerentola

  • Rossini - Maomentto Secondo

  • Rossini - Semiramide

  • Sallinen - Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

  • Schostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

  • Strauss - Arabella

  • Strauss, R - Die ägyptische Helena

  • Struass, R - Die Frou ohne Schatten

  • Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage

  • Verdi - Don Carlos

  • Verdi - Falstaff

  • Wagner - Das Rheingold

  • Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer

  • Wagner - Götterdämmerung

  • Wagner - Siegfried (2x)

  • Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

Tags: opera