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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 226. Chapters: Richard Wagner, J. B. Priestley, W. H. Auden, Hector Berlioz, Colette, Toni Morrison, Gertrude Stein, Carlo Goldoni, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arrigo Boito, Pope Clement IX, Paul Verlaine, John Gay, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Philippe Quinault, Alexander Sumarokov, W. S. Gilbert, Bertolt Brecht, Abraham Goldfaden, List of opera librettists, Emanuel Schikaneder, Alphonse Royer, Lorenzo Ferrero, Avram Steuerman-Rodion, Terrence McNally, Felice Romani, Russell Hoban, Berlie Doherty, Paul Griffiths, Metastasio, Basil Hood, Francis Burnand, Henry Brougham Farnie, Annie Finch, Gian Carlo Menotti, Maria Antonia of Bavaria, B. C. Stephenson, J. Comyns Carr, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Julian Sturgis, John Craton, Gaetano Rossi, Edmond Gondinet, Michael Symmons Roberts, David Rudkin, Adam Cornford, Christopher Hampton, Antonio Palomba, Theophile Marion Dumersan, Pierre-Barthelemy Gheusi, Engelbert Humperdinck, Arnold Weinstein, Giovanni Bertati, Federico Romero, Sydney Grundy, Ferdinando Fontana, Jack Hibberd, Jennifer Walshe, Yakov Knyazhnin, Catherine II and opera, Ludovic Halevy, Nicholas von Hoffman, Clemens Krauss, George Frederick Cameron, Eugene Scribe, George Dance, Henry Pottinger Stephens, David Harsent, Louis Gallet, Peter Zinovieff, Christopher Hassall, Francesco Maria Piave, Nestor Kukolnik, J. D. McClatchy, Robin Blaser, Apostolo Zeno, Frank Desprez, Georg Kaiser, Mikhail Matinsky, Chester Kallman, Giovacchino Forzano, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, Jack Larson, Albert Carre, Jean-Francois Bayard, Antonio Salvi, Craig Raine, Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter, Andrea Maffei, Arturo Colautti, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Ben Katchor, William M. Hoffman, Catulle Mendes, Salvadore Cammarano, Josep Feliu i Codina, Jon Swan, Arthur Guiterman, Anne Howard Bailey, Robert de Flers, Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Francis Hueffer...