A work of this kind, by whomsoever written, must be somewhat arbitrary in its selection of THE STANDARD OPERAS; and the writer has often found it difficult to say where the line should be drawn,--what excluded and what admitted. In addition to the operas treated of, there are others, without a mention of which such a work as this would scarcely be considered complete; and a list of these is herewith submitted, together with the dates of their first performance. Many of these are familiar to the public by their past reputation, while others still hold the stage in Europe. Others have never been given out of the native country of their composers; and still others, like those of Mr. Sullivan, are in reality operettas, and cannot be classed as standard, although their popularity is extraordinary.
ADAM - Le Postilion de Longjumeau (1835).
AUBER - Le Cheval de Bronze (The Bronze Horse) (1835); L'Ambassadrice (1836); Le Domino Noir (The Black Domino) (1837); Zanetta (1840); Manon Lescaut (1856).
DONIZETTI - Polinto (1840); Linda (1842); Maria di Rohan (1843); Don Sebastian (1843); Gemma di Vergi (1845).
FLOTOW - L'Ombre (1869).
GOETZ - Francesca von Rimini (1874); The Taming of the Shrew (1874).
GOLDMARK - The Queen of Sheba (1875); Merlin (1886); Cricket on the Hearth (1896).
GOMEZ - Il Guarany (1870).
GOUNOD - Polyeucte (1878).
HALEVY - L'Eclair (1835).
HEROLD - Zampa(1831); Pre aux Clercs(1832).
ISOUARD - Joconde (1814).
KREUTZER - Das Nachtlager in Granada (1834).
LEONCAVALLO - I Medici (1893).
MARCHETTI - Ruy Blas (1870).
MARSCHNER - Der Vampyr (1828); Hans Heiling (1833).
MASCAGNI - L'Amico Fritz (1892); I Rantzau (1892); Silvano(1895); Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895).
MASSE - La Reine Topaze (1856); Paul et Virginie (1876).
MASSENET - Le Roi de Lahore (1877); Manon Lescaut (1884); Le Cid (1886); Esclarmonde (1889).
NICOLAI - Merry Wives of Windsor (1849).
PACINI - Saffo (1840).
PLANQUETTE - The Bells of Corneville (1877).
PONCHIELLI - La Gioconda (1876).
RICCI - Crispino (1850).
ROSSINI - La Gazza Ladra (1817); Moses in Egypt (1818).
RUBINSTEIN - Dimitri Donskoi (1852); The Demon (1875); Feramors (1863).
SAINT SAENS - Le Timbre d'Argent (1877); Etienne Marcel (1879); Henry VIII. (1883); Proserpine (1887).
STRAUSS - Indigo (1871); Die Fledermaus (The Bat) (1872); Der Lustige Krieg (The Merry War) (1875).
SULLIVAN - Trial by Jury (1875); The Sorcerer (1877); Pinafore (1878); Pirates of Penzance (1880); Patience (1881); Iolanthe (1882); The Princess (1883); The Mikado (1885); Ruddygore (1887); The Yeomen of the Guard (1888); King of Barataria (1889); Hesse Halbpfennig (1896).
SUPPE - Fatinitza (1876); Boccaccio (1882).
THOMAS - Hamlet (1868); Francoise de Rimini (1882).
VERDI - The Sicilian Vespers (1855); La Forza del Destino (Force of Destiny) (1862); Don Carlos (1867).
