The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera (Paperback)

Acknowledgements List of Works with Links to audio and scores List of Musical Illustrations Introduction Part One: Oratorios Chapter 1: Seventeenth - Eighteenth century Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): La Giuditta (two versions: 1694, 1697) Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741): Juditha Triumphans (1716) Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Judith (1761, 1764) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Betulia Liberata (1771) Chapter 2: Nineteenth - Twentieth century Henry David Leslie (1822-1896): Judith (1858) C. Hubert Parry (1848-1918): Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (1888) Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933): Judith, Scene Lyrique (1876) Arthur Honegger (1892-1955): Judith, Drame Biblique (1925) Part Two: Operas Chapter 3: Influential Nineteenth Century Plays Friedrich Hebbel Judith (1840) Paolo Giacometti Giuditta (1857) Chapter 4: Nineteenth Century Operas Achille Peri (1812-1880): Giuditta (1860) Domenico Silveri (1818-1900): Giuditta (1885) Charles Lefebvre (1843-1917): Judith, drame lyrique en 3 acts 4 scenes (1877) Alexander Serov (1820-1871): Iudif (1863) Chapter 5: Twentieth Century Operas George Whitfield Chadwick (1854-1931): Judith (1901) Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945): Holofernes (1922) Eugene Goossens (1893-1962): Judith (1927) Siegfried Matthus (1934--): Judith (1984) Table and Conclusion Bibliography of musical works (chronological) Bibliography