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Wilhelm Tell Friedrich Schiller · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out… Shares: Drama

Richard Wagner über Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner · 1800 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This libretto contains the original German text and an English translation of the opera by Richard Wagner. It tells the story of a princess who is forced into an arranged marriage with a king, but has fallen in love with another man. Shares: Opera programs, Arranged Excerpts, Vocal scores with piano, Scores

An English translation of Parsifal, the sacred festival drama by Richard Wagner Richard Wagner · 1879 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging "Parsifal," holiday matinee February 22, 1940 for the benefit of Children's Health Service of the New York Diet Kitchen Association (Inc. 1873). Shares: Opera programs, Arranged Excerpts, Vocal scores with piano, Scores

Der Ritt der Walkuren Richard Wagner · 1800 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walküre is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and memorable music and stands alone as a complete work. This present edition reproduces the full orchestral and vocal score in a clear, modern engraving with large, legible notation for easy reading and study. Do… Shares: Arranged Excerpts, Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Opera

Overture to Tannhauser Richard Wagner · 1800 · 39p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The operas of the German composer Richard Wagner had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works. He went on to revolutionise the music form through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with… Shares: Arranged Excerpts, Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Opera

Beggar's opera John Gay · 1728 · ★ 3.4 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Demanding The beggar's opera, John Gay. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/1796 . The beggar's opera Gay, John, 1685-1732 Bear, Richard s.n. s.l. [1765] Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost · 1734 · ★ 3.3 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon. In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation, while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's… Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Operas, Librettos

Comus John Milton · 1738 · ★ 3.7 · 59p · ≈ 1h · Demanding From what I have found it is about a woman who is kidnapped by a Greek god. Where she is tempted numerous times by him but decides to refrain from temptation. Her brothers who she was traveling with meet another being who tells them how to help their sister, but the question is will they be able to save her before she gives in. Shares: Scores, Librettos

Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents.  Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Burya William Shakespeare · 1789 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Adapted from Shakespeare. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

The gentle shepherd Allan Ramsay · 1734 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Demanding The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay, scottish poet, playwright and publisher (1686-1758) This ebook presents «The Gentle Shepherd», from Allan Ramsay. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- PREFACE -03- THE LIFE OF ALLAN RAMSAY -04- REMARKS ON THE WRITINGS OF ALLAN RAMSAY -05- ESSAY ON RAMSAY'S GENTLE SHEPHERD -06-… Shares: Librettos, Drama

Fröken Julie August Strindberg · 1880 · ★ 3.4 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging In a post-Apartheid kitchen, a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm laborer, his master's daughter, and the woman who has raised them both. John and Mies Julie spiral into a deadly battle over power, sexuality and memory. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor. Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce · 1818 · ★ 3.6 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist. Penguin Popular Classics are the perfect introduction to the world-famous Penguin Classics series — which… Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Opera Publius Vergilius Maro · 1502 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding A timeless exploration of humanity's connection to nature, The Georgics of Virgil delves into the art and labor of agriculture while weaving in the grandeur of Roman patriotism and mythology. Composed by Virgil over seven years and completed in 29 B.C.E., this masterful poetic work offers meditations on the cycles of cultivation and their profound alignment with the natural and divine order. Its… Shares: Operas, Music

Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw · 1898 · ★ 3.8 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, though the tangle of relationships must be resolved before her ex-soldier can conclude the last of… Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts

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