Excerpt from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music; Two Volumes in One Berlioz's dramatic legend, 152 A thing of shreds and patches, 152 Turned into an opera by Raoul Gunsbourg, 152 The composer's Scenes from Fa 153 History of the com position, 153 -the Rakoczy March, 154 Concert performances in New York, 155 - Seheme of the work, 155 The dance of the sylphs and the aerial ballet, 157 Dance of the will-o'-the-wisps, 159 The ride to hell, 180. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.