Grand Opera: The Story of the Met (64 page)

Auden, W. H.,
218

Audi, Pierre,
349
,
377
,
385
tab

Autry, Gene,
358

Baccaloni, Salvatore,
161

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
167

Balanchine, George,
146
,
228

Baldwin, Marcia,
259

Ballo in maschera, Un
(Verdi),
14
,
170
,
254
;
1888
–
89
,
28
;
1913
–
14
,
91
;
1940
–
41
,
156
,
170
;
1954
–
55
,
208–9
;
1961
–
62
,
213
,
222
;
1979
–
80
,
281
;
1990
–
91
,
317
;
2012
–
13
,
381–82

Balò, Maurizio,
310

Baltimore Opera (Maryland),
372

Baltsa, Agnes,
303

Bampton, Rose,
175–76

Bantchevsky, Bantcho,
288

Barber, Samuel,
215
,
237–38
,
240

Barbier von Bagdad, Der
(Cornelius):
1889
–
90
,
32

Barbiere di Siviglia, Il
(Rossini),
11
,
50
,
52
,
144
,
149
,
168
;
1883
–
84
,
9
;
1927
–
28
,
20
;
1955
–
56
,
226
;
1957
–
58
,
298
;
1981
–
82
,
287
,
347
;
2006
–
07
,
358
,
364
,
375
,
379

Barbieri, Fedora,
190

Barenboim, Daniel,
306

Barlow, Klara,
261

Barnum, P. T.,
14

Barrault, Jean-Louis,
222

Barrientos, Maria,
298

Bartered Bride, The
(Smetana),
168
,
170
;
1908
–
09
,
83
,
327–28
;
1935
–
36
,
146–47
;
1978
–
79
,
280
;
1997
–
98
,
329
,
335

Bartók, Béla,
302

Bartoli, Cecilia,
22
,
325
,
343
,
346

Basing, Charles,
98
tab

Bass, Mercedes T.,
327
,
349

Battle, Kathleen,
287
,
290
,
302
,
317
,
320
,
348
,
350

Baudoin, Monique,
299

Baudu, Pierre,
49
tab

Baum, Kurt,
201–2
,
224

Bavarian State Opera.
See
Bayerische Staatsoper

Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich),
349
,
373

Bayreuther Festspiele (Bayreuth),
5
,
7
,
27
,
32
,
56
,
59
,
69
,
73
,
131
,
155
,
167
,
244
,
270
,
274
,
306
,
341
,
386

Beame, Abe (mayor),
265

Beaton, Cecil,
218
,
222
,
244

Beczala, Piotr,
382

Beecham, Sir Thomas,
129
,
167
,
170–72
,
178
,
192

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
54
,
157–58

Behrens, Hildegard,
295
,
301
,
303
,
365

Belasco Theatre (New York),
88

Belasco, David,
86–89
,
87
fig
,
401n16

Bel Geddes, Norman,
197

Bellini, Vincenzo,
9
,
11–13
,
20–22
,
346
,
394n20

Belmont, August,
13
,
123

Belmont, Eleanor (Mrs. August, Jr.),
123
,
126–27
,
141
,
143
,
162
,
182–83
,
197–98
,
199
,
229
,
328
,
336

Belohlávek, Jirí,
330
tab

Beňačková, Gabriela,
329
,
331
,
420n22

Bennett, James Gordon,
39

Bennett, John,
201

Bennett, Max,
201

Benois, Alexander,
97
tab

Benois, Nicola,
267
tab

Benvenuto Cellini
(Berlioz),
371
;
2003
–
04
,
345

Berg, Alban,
215

Berger, Erna,
162
,
290

Berghart & Co.,
74
tab
,
95
–
97
tab

Berglund, Joel,
145

Bergman, Gustav,
159

Bergman, Ingmar,
254–55

Bergonzi, Carlo,
210
,
212–13
,
298
,
303

Berkowitz, Phoebe,
284

Berlioz, Hector,
345

Berman, Eugene,
211
,
213

Bernardi, Mario,
292

Bernhardt, Sarah,
6
,
14
,
47
,
72

Bernheimer, Martin,
251
,
302

Bernstein, Leonard,
188
,
214
,
229–30
,
251
,
253
,
256
,
258
,
275
,
305
,
363

Berry, Walter,
244

Betrothal in a Monastery
(Prokofiev),
335

Bianco, Pieretto,
98
tab
,
106
tab

Billinghurst, Sarah,
311
,
335

Billy Budd
(Britten):
1978
–
79
,
279

Bing, Rudolf,
73
,
168
,
182–210
,
185
fig
,
208
fig
,
210
,
212
,
214–18
,
220–27
,
229–31
,
234
,
236–38
,
240–41
,
243
,
245–51
,
253–56
,
259
,
266
,
271
,
274
,
298
,
308
,
310–11
,
317
,
320
,
328
,
341–42
,
348
,
352
,
356–57
,
362
,
374
,
389

Bizet, Georges,
19

Björling, Jussi,
149
,
157
,
190
,
356

Blech, Leo,
96
tab

Bledsoe, Jules,
205–6

Blegen, Judith,
284

Bliss, Anthony,
204
,
229
,
243
,
253
,
259
,
264–66
,
270–74
,
276
,
283–84
,
288–89
,
292
,
294
,
297
,
306
,
307
,
311
,
352
,
354
,
371

Bliss, Cornelius N.,
124
,
129
,
147–48
,
264

Blitzstein, Mark,
194
,
240

Bloch, Max,
92

Blomdahl, Karl-Birger,
254

Bloomberg,
422n10

Bluebeard’s Castle
(Bartók):
1973
–
74
,
260
,
263
;
1988
–
89
,
299
,
302

Blue Bird, The [L’Oiseau Bleu]
(Wolff),
106
tab

Blythe, Stephanie,
302
,
345
,
348
,
388

Boccaccio
(von Suppé):
1930
–
31
,
120

Bodanya, Natalie,
146

Bodanzky, Artur,
67
,
118–19
,
131
,
133
,
137
,
151
,
153–54
,
173
,
187

Bogianckino, Massimo,
253
,
268

Bohème, La
(Puccini),
69
,
82
,
87
,
111
,
143
,
168
;
1900
–
01
,
47
,
71
,
297
;
1909
–
10
,
68
,
84
;
1936
–
37
,
151
;
1952
–
53
,
220
,
285
;
1965
–
66
,
223
;
1968
–
69
,
315
;
1976
–
77
,
273
,
281
,
358
;
1980
–
81
,
285–86
,
286
fig
,
295
,
300–301
; recording)
165