Milton Cross' Complete Stories of the Great Operas
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Dolores Ramos. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6.0"x8.5"x1.75". 627 pgs. Black cloth boards. Red title block on spine with gilt letters and drawings. Forewrd by M.J.C. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean with slight tone. Unmarked. Spots to cover. Shelf wear. Dent on bottom next to spine. very good / no Jacket. Item #2577
"To preserve the utmost accuracy and to avoid the errors which have crept into many of the translatios, the sotires in this volume have been taken fro the scores and the libretti in the original languages." Foreword.
Part I: The Stories of the Great Opera -
L'Africaine, Meyerber
Aida, Verdi
L'Amore Dei Tre Re, Montemezzi
Andrea Chenier, Giordano
Ariadne auf Naxos, Strauss
Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini
Many many more Part II - How ton Enjoy An Opera, Part III - A Brief History of Opera, Part IV - The Ballet in Opera
Selected Reading Guide
Index.
Price: $48.25