Stories From The Operas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stories From The Operas, credited to Gladys Davidson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Stories From The Operas by Gladys Davidson. Read in English by volunteer readers. "Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and popular operas recently produced in England. The plan of the work, as before, is to present all the incidents of each libretto in the clear, readable form of a short story; and it is hoped that the combined volume will continue to prove of interest, not only to opera-goers but to all lovers of dramatic tales. The three volumes have been entirely reset and re-collated in a manner which it is hoped will make them easier for reference." - Summary by Gladys Davidson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stories From The Operas
• Author credits: Gladys Davidson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 19:03:00

Catalogue topics

• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Verdi
• Wagner
• Wallace
• thomas
• strauss
• auber

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 01 - AUBER – Fra Diavolo — 25:03
2. 02 - BALFE – The Bohemian Girl — 23:57
3. 03 - BEETHOVEN – Fidelio — 22:25
4. 04 - BELLINI – La Sonnambula — 14:37
5. 05 - BELLINI – I Puritani — 11:15
6. 06 - BENEDICT – The Lily of Killarney — 20:30
7. 07 - BIZET – Carmen — 24:58
8. 08 - DONIZETTI – Lucrezia Borgia — 13:12
9. 09 - DONIZETTI – Lucia di Lammermoor — 12:37
10. 10 - DONIZETTI – The Daughter of the Regiment (La Figlia del Reggimento) — 13:16
11. 11 - FLOTOW – Martha — 21:41
12. 12 - GOUNOD – Faust — 21:20
13. 13 - GOUNOD – Philemon and Baucis — 20:38
14. 14 - GOUNOD – Romeo and Juliet — 20:26
15. 15 - HALEVY – The Jewess (La Juive) — 13:45
16. 16 - HUMPERDINCK – Die Konigskinder (The Kingly Children) — 24:13
17. 17 - LEONCAVALLO – I Pagliacci (The Mountebanks) — 15:42
18. 18 - MASCAGNI – Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) — 15:46
19. 19 - MEYERBEER – Robert the Devil (Robert le Diable) — 19:01
20. 20 - MEYERBEER – The Huguenots (Les Huguenots) — 23:08
21. 21 - MEYERBEER – Star of the North (L’Etoile du Nord) — 25:48
22. 22 - MOZART – The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) — 22:02
23. 23 - MOZART – Don Juan (Don Giovanni) — 25:39
24. 24 - NICOLAI – The Merry Wives of Windsor — 20:21

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