Classic books that inspired classic operas

Discover the timeless classic books that inspired iconic operas. Explore the literary masterpieces behind famous operatic works and their enduring cultural impact.

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The Aeneid

by Virgil

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long …
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The Tales of Hoffmann

by Ernst Theodor Hoffman

A lawyer by day and a creator of a world of fantasy by night, Hoffman (1776-1822) lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence. Many of the …
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Goethe's Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the …
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