Bach, Johann Christian, 469–472
Balfe, Michael William, 473
Ballet de cour, 2239–2241
Barber, Samuel, 474, 475
Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo, 476
Bartók, Béla, 391, 477–484
Barton, Andrew, 484
Bayerische Staatsoper, 308, 309, 321
Das Bayreuther Festpiele, 288, 307, 324, 2370–2373
Beaujoyeulx, Balthazar de, 2225
Beeson, Jack, 485
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 486–502; Fidelio, 491, 493, 495–502
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Bellini, Vincenzo, 503–521; Beatrice di Tenda, 514; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, 515; collabo-
ration with Felice Romani, 270, 271. Norma, 514, 516; Il pirata, 517; I puritani di
Scozia, 518, 519; La sonnambula,520; La straniera, 521
Benda, Georg Anton, 522–524; Ariadne auf Naxos, 521, 524; Medea, 524; Romeo und
Julie, 521
Benedict, Julius, 473
Bennett, Richard Rodney, 525
Berg, Alban, 526–541; Lulu, 527–530, 535–538; Wozzeck, 527–530, 539, 540
Berghaus, Ruth, 294
Berio, Luciano, 95, 542–544
Berlioz, Hector, 545–569; Béatrice et Bénédict, 545, 560, 561; La damnation de Faust,
545, 563, 564; Les troyens, 545, 565–569
Bertin de la Doué, Toussaint, 569
Bertoja, Giuseppe, 288
Berton, Henri Montan, 569, 570, 571
Bertoni, Ferdinando, 572
Berwald, Franz Adolf, 573–575
Bing, Rudolf, 295, 296
Birtwistle, Harrison, 576, 577
Bishop, Henry, 577
Bizet, Georges, 578–587; Carmen, 391, 580–586
Blacher, Boris, 588
Black musicians, 164, 167–169, 189
Blavet, Michel, 588
Bliss, Arthur, 590
Blitzstein, Marc, 591–593
Bloch, Ernest, 594
Blow, John, 595
Boieldieu, François Adrien, 595, 596
Boito, Arrigo, 232, 597–602; collaboration with Verdi, 599
Bol’shoi Teatr (Moscow), 2657–2659
Bononcini, Giovanni, 603–607, 947, 995
Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea, 607
Borodin, Alexander, 607,608–610
Boughton, Rutland, 611
Boulevard theaters (Paris), 2269, 2275
Brecht, Berthold, collaboration with Kurt Weill, 233, 234
Bristow, George Frederick, 612
Britten, Benjamin, 613–649; Albert Herring, 626, 627; Billy Budd, 622, 628–630; bibliog-
raphy, 614, 615; biography, 618–620; Death in Venice, 631–634; gender issues, 625,
628, 629, 649; Gloriana, 635, 636; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 637–639; Owen
Wingrave, 639*; Paul Bunyan, 640; Peter Grimes, 641–645; The Rape of Lucretia, 627,
645–647; The Turn of the Screw, 627, 643, 648, 649
Burgtheater (Vienna), 288, 2134, 2154–2157, 2348
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