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U S. A. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1997 First Edition Hardcover As New/As New 0393040518 470pp including bibliography Foreword by Beverly Sills Over 120 operas represented, plus biographical sketches of each composer, world and U.S. premier dates, lists of characters, and other background information.

ISBN10: 0393040518, ISBN13: 9780393040517, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, U S. A.] Hardcover First Edition 470pp including bibliography Foreword by Beverly Sills Over 120 operas represented, plus biographical sketches of each composer, world and U.S. premier dates, lists of characters, and other background information
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Hardback. New. Following the first volume, this second book provides the plots of a further 124 operas. Each composer featured is the subject of a short biographical sketch, with details of the opera's first performances, the librettists and the cast, and a detailed summary of the plot. ISBN 0393040518 9780393040517 [GB]

ISBN10: 0393040518, ISBN13: 9780393040517, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The opera-goer's indispensable guide. About to see Rossini's William Tell, Verdi's I Lombardi, Gluck's Alceste, Philzner's Palestrina, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream The stories of these operas and 120 others are told, clearly and concisely, in this companion volume to the highly successful Metropolitan Open Stories of the Great Operas. Opera News associate editor John W. Freeman untangles and summarizes the often complicated plots and provides, in addition, an informative biographical sketch of each composer, world and U.S. premiere dates, lists of characters, and other background information. The works included here are selected from the repertory of European and American opera companies. They span more than three and one-half centuries, from Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (1640) to Philip Glass's The Voyage (1992), and are set in venues as diverse as the legendary Palace of Time (Lully's Atys) and twentieth-century Manhattan (Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X). The operas are arranged alphabetically by composer and indexed by all the usual versions of the title (e.g., Der Zigeunerbaron, The Gypsy Baron). Published jointly by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and W. W. Norton, the book is not only a most valuable resource ...
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