G. Schirmer's Collection of Operas: Aida
NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1925. 2nd Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 7.75"x11". 310 pgs. Green cloth boards. Gilt design and letters on front and spine. Frontispiece: Photo of Verdi w/facsimile inscription to Schirmer. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slightly toned w/minimal foxing through out. Edge wear and fraying to spine. Some lines in red. Last page has bug bites. PON&D on ffep. Collectible - Good. Item #13272
Opera in Four Acts. Libretto by A. Ghislanzoni. The English version by Mrs. G. G. Laurence. With an essay on the History of the Opera by W. J. Henderson. Original copyright was 1897. The is an assigned renewal. List of Characters of the drama. Scenes of each act. Essay. Index: Prelude, Act I.; Act II; Act III; Act IV; Piano. Each act has an introduction.
Ancient Egypt and the war with Ethiopia is the setting for Verdi's grandest opera. It is the story of the love between Rhadames, the Egyptian general, and Aida, an Ethiopian slave, and the jealousy of Amneris, daughter of the King of Egypt. It was written in 1871 to a commission from the Khedive of Egypt to inaugurate the new opera house in Cairo. Aida generally is considered one of the most spectacular of Verdi's operas.
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