The Teatro Solis: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Author's Note and Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	1516-1829: The Solis Tradition - A Spanish Colony in the New World - The Birth of Theatrical Life: The Casa de Comedias - Tonadilla Escenica, Zarzuela, and Opera	1
Ch. 2	1830-1856: The Italian Opera in the Americas and the Antecedents of the Teatro Solis	8
Ch. 3	1839-1856: The Construction of the Teatro Solis - Project for a New Theater - The Zucchi Project - Eight Years of Delay - Architect Francisco Xavier de Garmendia and His New Project - Further Renovations	14
Ch. 4	August 25, 1856: The Opening of the Teatro Solis	23
Ch. 5	1857-1858: A Triumphant Enrico Tamberlick Opens the Second Solis Season - Anna Bishop: A Soprano to Remember - Artur Napoleao and Oscar Pfeiffer: Two First Piano Virtuosi	31
Ch. 6	1859-1866: Anna de la Grange and Raffaele Mirate: Two Stars and Three Companies in the Same Season	37
Ch. 7	1867-1869: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, First American Pianist and Composer - His Monumental Solis Concerts - The World Premiere of Symphonie No. 2 "A Montevideo"	43
Ch. 8	1870-1876: Carlotta Patti - Pablo de Sarasate - Two Rossini Premieres - A Great Basso Buffo: Alessandro Bottero - Luisa Gallo - Il Guarany	50
Ch. 9	1878-1887: The First Uruguayan Opera: Tomas Giribaldi's Parisina - Francesco Tamagno's First Season at the Teatro Solis - More Debuts: Gemma Bellincioni and Roberto Stagno, Medea Mei and Nikolay Figner, Eva Tetrazzini	57
Ch. 10	1888-1889: Adelina Patti, Nineteenth-Century Superstar - Otello's Uruguayan Premiere: Romilda Pantaleoni and Roberto Stagno - Mattia Battistini, "The King of Baritones"	63
Ch. 11	1890-1894: Jose Oxilia: The Uruguayan Otello - Young Antonio Scotti's Falstaff - Edoardo Mascheroni: The First Notable Conductor - Seven Opera Premieres and a Famous Zarzuela	70
Ch. 12	1895-1897: La boheme Premiere with Hariclea Darclee and Emilio De Marchi - Francesco Tamagno Singing Otello - An Ideal Werther: Fernando De Lucia - Edoardo Mascheroni Conducts Seven New Operas - Florencio Constantino's Debut	79
Ch. 13	1898-1899: Montevideo and Its New Theaters - Luisa Tetrazzini - Two Bohemes and a Young Conductor: Giorgio Polacco - Regina Pacini - Luis Sambucetti's Suite d' orchestre	85
Ch. 14	1900: The Turn of the Century: From "La Belle Epoque" to Challenging Times - Opera as a Fashionable Social Event - Impresarios and Opera Business - Teatro Solis Carnival Masked Balls - Opera Programs and a Vanishing Collection	92
Ch. 15	1901-1902: Two New Stars at the Solis: Maria Barrientos and Guiseppe Anselmi - A Tosca to Remember with Hariclea Darclee and Edoardo Garbin - The Death of Maestro Luigi Preti, the Solis' First Conductor	98
Ch. 16	1903: The Rise of a Golden Age: The Arrival of Arturo Toscanini and Enrico Caruso	104
Ch. 17	1904-1906: Rosina Storchio and Madama Butterfly - The Opening of the Teatro Urquiza - Puccini Visits Montevideo - Toscanini Conducts the Teatro Solis Golden Jubilee - Salomea Kruszelnicka	113
Ch. 18	1861-1918: Glitter and Gaiety at Solis Operetta Seasons - The First American Musical: The Black Crook - An Outstanding English Operetta Season - Lehar Works Close Half a Century of Frivolous and Nonchalant Operettas	124
Ch. 19	1907-1914: Leopoldo Mugnone Conducts Massenet and Wagner Uruguayan Premieres - An Overnight Star: Amelita Galli-Curci - Mascagni's Arrival - Isabeau - Celestina Boninsegna - Guglielmo Ratcliff - Parsifal - The Ballets Russes: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina	130
Ch. 20	1914-1916: Titta Ruffo: "Not a Voice but a Miracle" - Tito Schipa - Elvira de Hidalgo - Rosa Raisa - Giovanni Martinelli - A Pagliacci to Remember - Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini - Uruguayan Opera World Premiere: Cesar Cortinas' La ultima gavota - Camille Saint-Saens' Arrival and Performance - The French Season: Andre Messager and Xavier Leroux Conduct Their Operas - Ninon Vallin	139
Ch. 21	1917: A Unique Performance: Artur Rubinstein and Vaslav Nijinsky - Ernest Ansermet and a New Season of the Ballets Russes - New Voices: Fanny Anitua and Marcelo Urizar - Uruguayan World Premiere: Cesar Cortinas' La sulamita - Gino Marinuzzi Conducts Puccini's La rondine Premiere	148
Ch. 22	1918-1922: Beniamino Gigli and Claudio Muzio - Lucien Muratore - Four Uruguayan Premieres: Madame Sans-Gene, Monna Vanna, Fedra, and Le roi de Lahore - Anna Pavlova - Recitals: Yolanda Mero, Frances Nash, Edouard Risler, Artur Rubinstein, and Ricardo Vines - Felix Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra	157
Ch. 23	1923-1928: Richard Strauss Conducts Elektra and the Vienna Philharmonic - Debut of Nine Celebrated Singers - "A Gentleman of the Stage": The Baritone Victor Damiani - Two Premiers: Boris Godunov and La cena della beffe - Beethoven Centennial Concerts	168
Ch. 24	1929-1930: A Russian Opera Season - Bidu Sayao and Jan Kiepura - Rosette Anday's Carmen - Ottorino Respighi Conducts and Plays His Works - Guiomar Novaes - Wanda Landowska - Elisabeth Schumann - Jacques Thibaud - Feodor Chaliapin - The Creation of the SODRE	177
Ch. 25	1931-1955: Solis Versus SODRE: The Struggle for Survival - Lily Pons - The "Soler Miracle" - The Centro Cultural de Musica - An Impressive Porgy and Bess	185
Ch. 26	1956-1984: The Teatro Solis Centennial - Political Turmoil and the Fall of the Cultural Life - The Burning of the SODRE - From a Military Dictatorship to Democracy	193
	Epilogue: Opera, Concert, and Ballet on the Teatro Solis Stage - The Beginning of a New Era - Facing the Future	201
App. A	Chronology (1856-1956)	205
App. B	Artists who Peformed at the Teatro Solis (1856-1956) (Singers, Instrumentalists, Dancers, Conductors, Chorus Masters, Opera Directors)	434
App. C	Musical Works Performed at the Teatro Solis (1856-1956) (Operas, Operettas, Ballets, Zarzuelas)	458
App. D	Instrumental Ensembles that Performed at the Teatro Solis (1856-1956) (Orchestras, Chamber Groups, Bands, Etcetera)	469
App. E	Vocal Ensembles the Performed at the Teatro Solis (1856-1956)	471
App. F	Ballet Companies that Performed at the Teatro Solis (1856-1956)	472
	Notes	475
	Bibliography	487