Read Grand Opera: The Story of the Met Online
Authors: Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron
Poulenc, Francis,
285
Pountney, David,
313
Prada, Miuccia,
377
Preziose ridicule, Le
(Lattuada):
1930
–
31
,
120
Price, Leontyne,
204
,
209
,
210
,
225
,
227
,
237–38
,
247
,
274
,
277
,
290
,
296
,
356
Prigioniero, Il
(Dallapiccola),
260
prima donna assoluta
(a company’s leading soprano who excels in a wide-ranging repertoire, as exemplified by Lilli Lehmann),
28
Prince, Harold,
302
Profet, Der
(Meyerbeer):
1884
–
85
,
36–38
Profeta, Il
(Meyerbeer):
1883
–
84
,
36–37
Prophète, Le
(Meyerbeer),
51
;
1883
–
84
,
19
,
297
;
1884
–
85
,
27
;
1891
–
92
,
36
,
38
;
1976
–
77
,
277
,
278
,
342
Pühringer, Hans,
109
tab
Purcell, Henry,
259
Puritani, I
(Bellini),
11
,
21
;
1917
–
18
,
20
,
1975
–
76
,
22
,
280
,
283
,
347
;
2006
–
07
,
358
,
364
,
366–67
Putin, Vladimir,
334
Quaranta, Gianni,
301
Queen of Spades, The
(Tchaikovsky),
284
,
332
;
1909
–
10
,
83
,
327–28
;
1972
–
73
,
259
;
1995
–
96
,
329
,
33–333
;
1998
–
99
,
335
;
2008
–
09
,
331
Quilico, Gino,
312
Quintero, José,
221
Quivar, Florence,
296
Rabaud, Henri,
20
Rahn, Muriel,
206
Raimondi, Ruggero,
291
Rake’s Progress, The
(Stravinsky),
254
;
1952
–
53
,
215
,
217–18
;
1997
–
98
,
342
Raskin, Judith,
214
Ravel, Maurice,
285
Ravogli, Giulia,
38
Ray, E. B.,
207
Red Violin, The
, film (Girard),
351
Regietheater
(director’s opera),
341
Reine Fiammette, La
(Le Roux),
106
tab
Relyea, John,
345
Renaud, Maurice,
68
Reppa, David,
278–80
Requiem (Verdi):
1908
–
09
,
83
Respighi, Ottorino,
110
tab
Reyer, Ernest,
51
Rheingold, Das
(Wagner),
94
;
1888
–
89
,
28
;
1938
–
39
,
180
;
1968
–
69
,
249
;
2010
–
11
,
365
,
386–87
Riccitelli, Primo,
109
tab
Richmond, Yale,
420n20
Ricker, Charles,
256
Ricordi, Tito,
76
Rienzi
(Wagner),
134
Rigoletto
(Verdi),
8
,
14
,
138
,
143–44
,
168
;
1883
–
84
,
19
;
1884
–
85
,
27
;
1903
–
04
,
56
,
188
;
1925
–
26
,
137
;
1951
–
52
,
210
,
220
;
1977
–
78
,
273
,
277
;
2012
–
13
,
381–83
,
390
“
Ring, The,”
26
,
28
,
82
,
155
;
1898
–
99
,
47
;
1947
–
48
,
170
,
197
,
386
;
1950
–
51
,
186
;
1967
–
73
,
248–49
,
300
,
386
;
1986
–
88
,
300
,
303
,
350
,
386
;
1989
–
90
,
388
;
2010
–
12
,
386–91
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(Weill):
1979
–
80
,
280
Robert le diable
(Meyerbeer):
1883
–
84
,
19
Roberto Devereux
(Donizetti),
251
Robertson, David,
330
tab
Robinson, Francis,
185
Robin Woman, The: Shanewis
(Cadman):
1917
–
18
,
94
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., Mrs.,
246
Rockefeller, John D., III,
228
Rockefeller, Martha Baird,
271
Rockefeller, Nelson (governor),
230
Rockwell, John,
285–86
Rodelinda
(Handel):
2004
–
05
,
345
Rodzinski, Artur,
331
Rogers, Bernard,
167
Roi de Lahore, Le
(Massenet):
1923
–
24
,
108
Roi d’Ys
(Lalo),
107
tab
Roman, Stella,
174
Roméo et Juliette
(Gounod),
14
,
16
,
39
,
41
,
52
,
75
;
1883
–
84
,
9
,
297
;
1891
–
92
,
38–40
;
1967
–
68
,
247
;
1985
–
86
,
299
;
1986
–
87
,
303
;
2005
–
06
,
346