Sacchini, 51, 64 Saint-Saëns, 141-142 Saint-Saëns’ _Ascanio_, _Henry VIII._, _L’Ancètre_, _Les Barbares_, _Proserpine_, and _Phryne_, 142 Scarlatti, Alessandro, 10, 12, 21, 27, 41, 43, 70, 118 Schillings, Max, 140 Schubert, 13, 59, 60, 61 Schubert’s _Alfonso and Estella_, _Fierabras_, 60 Schumann, 59, 60, 61 Schumann’s _Genoveva_, 60 Scribe, 207 Senesino, 202 Serov, 124 Shield, 94 Sinding, 129 Singers, Abuses by, 15; stories of, 207-208 Singspiel, 4, 5, 70, 77, 83, 97, 185 Slavonic opera, 122-128 Smetana, 127, 178 Smetana’s _Dalibor_, _Der Kuss_, _Libusa_, 128; _Bartered Bride_, 128, 178 Smith, Miss Emily, 148 Smith’s (Miss Emily) _Der Wald_, _The Wreckers_, 148 Somerville, 148 Spinelli, 134 Spinelli’s _A Basso Porto_, 134 Spohr, 14, 24, 78 Spohr’s _Faust_, 78; _Der Alchymist_, _Der Berggeist_, _Jessonda_, 79 Spontini, 14, 60, 63, 66, 84, 98, 169, 175, 176, 194, 196, 200, 205, 210 Spontini’s _Fernand Cortez_, _Olympia_, 85; _La Petite Maison_, 210; _La Vestale_, 85, 200, 210 Stage pieces, Progress in mounting of, 7 Stanford, 145, 146, 153 Stanford’s _Canterbury Pilgrims_, _Savonarola_, _Shamus O’Brien_, _The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan_, 146; _Much Ado about Nothing_, 147 Stereotyped casts, 191 Storace, 94 Strauss, 139, 179 Strauss’s _Feursnot_, _Guntram_, 139; _Elektra_, _Salome_, 139, 179 Sullivan, 97, 119, 158, 189 Sullivan’s _The Mikado_, 97; _Ivanhoe_, 97, 158 Sussmäyr, 70 Tamburini, 208 Tchaïkovsky, 124, 126, 189, 195 Tchaïkovsky’s _Eugene Oniegin_, _Joan of Arc_, _Mazeppa_, _The Enchantress_, _The Oprichnik_, 126 Thomas, Ambroise, 90, 119, 141 Thomas, Goring, 96 Titov, 123 Tomaschek, 127 Tonality, 9 Venice, 174 Verdi, 72-75, 80, 98, 119, 173, 207 Verdi’s _Ernani_, _Rigoletto_, _Il Trovatore_, _La Traviata_, 72; _Un Ballo in Maschera_, _Aïda_, 73; _Otello_, _Falstaff_, 74; _I Lombardi_, 173 Vienna, 177 Vivaldi, 41 Volkov, 123