Opera Libretto, Used (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD (illustrator). 48 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Unpaginated. English only.This is an opera libretto.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In French and its English translation in parallel columns on each page. 38 pages. 255 x 170 mm. The very attractive front board is detached and rear board missing BUT included: three clippings of the roster, clipped from the Met Opera program, of the following performances: Nov. 8 , 1925 with Lucrezia Bori, Rothier, etc., Dec. 1, 1923 with Bori and Gigli, and Feb. 10, 23 with De luca, Didur, Rothier etc. Also some arias etc appear in the libretto in musical notations.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and French in parallel columns. 32 pages. 242 x 173 mm. Attractive copper color cover. In addition to the text and translation, there are some musical scores of arias etc. This is an opera libretto.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 138 pages. 235 x 155 mm. Attractive Met Opera cover. General Manger is listed as Edward Johnson. Damage to spine. Photos of Flagstad, Melchior, Schorr, etc on back board, all promoting the Knabe piano.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bilingual edition, English and German columns side by side. 80 pages. 255 x 170 mm. The attractive Met Opera covers are detached, but attached are clippings of the roster from two performances' program notes: Dec. 19, 1925 with Marcella Roesler and Marion Telav and Leon Rothier and April 12, 1924 with the same.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. German and its English translation. This is an opera libretto. The attractive front wrapper is detached and lost its edges, back wrapper missing. The libretto has attached to it clippings from two performances at the Met: a Jan. 1, 1927 and a Dec. 8, 1926 performance of Tannhauser with Florence Easton and others. 32 pages of bilingual text plus 8 pages of note music of some of the arias etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In English and Italian. Opera libretto. It includes synopsis. vii, 52 pages. 265 x 175 mm.

Original Stapled Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Bi-lingual edition, Italian - English. Includes synopsis. vii, 12 pages. 265 x 175 mm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and Italian in parallel columns. 48 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Very attractive front board.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and German. 33 pages. 255 x 173 mm. Includes clippings of two program notes: the roster for performances, probably in the mid 1920s, one performance with Editha Fleischer, Quena Mario, Dorothee Manski, Henriette Wakefield, Dorothea Flexer, Charlotte Ryan and Gustave Schuetzendorf, Giuseppte Bamboschek conducting; the other performance, with Artur Bodansky conducting has Thalia Sabanieeva as Gretel, Merle Alcock as Gertrude. Laid is is a piece of paper with Susan Karelit's telephone number and address: 145 East 92 Street and it verso a drawing of a girl. Very touching ephemera from almost a hundred years ago.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. In English and German. 32 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Very attractive front cover but the front cover is detached.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 50 pages. In English and Italian in parallel columns. Front cover has a tear and is missing a sliver.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and Italna. 29 paes. 254 x 171 mm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and German. 48 pages. 244 x 173 mm. Very attractive cover. Bilingual edition, German column next to English column.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and Italian on facing pages. 27 pages. Undated but on the attractive Met Opera cover Gatti-Casazza is listed as the Gen. Mgr.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and German. 80 pages. 255 x 170 mm. Attractive Met Opera cover. Undated, but Gatti-Casezza is listed as the General Manager.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In Italian and English.This is an opera libretto. 68 pages. 235 x 158 mm. Very attractive Met Opera cover. Undated, but the general manager is listed as Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Attached to title page are clippings of the roster in several actual performances: nov. 26, 1927 with Florence Easton and antonio scotti, March 5, 1927 with Maria Mueller, Nov. 22 1924, conducted by Serafin, with Beniamino Gigli, Dec. 15, 1923 with Elizabeth Rethberg, Feb. 20, 1920 with Geralidine Farrar.

Original Stapled Softcover. Condition: Good. Bi-Lingual edition, French - English. The libretto is undated, but it has Gatti-Casazza listed on the ornate front board as being the general manager of the Met. Gatti-Casazza was general manager of the Met from 1908 to 1935 so this libretto dates from that period. Also the back board has an ad, depicted Maria Jeritza proclaiming her love for the Knabe piano.

Original Stapled Softcover. Condition: Very Good +++.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and Italian. 64 pages. 244 x 175 mm. Very attractive front cover. Includes clippings of the rosters from Met Opera Programs notes of actual performances: Jan. 21, 28 with Pinza, Ponselle and Danise; Nov. 28, 1920 with Ponselle, Caruso, Jose Mardones Pasquale Amato, Jan 4, 1919 Ponselle, de Luca, Caruso, Mardones. Italian and English text and Music of The Principal Airs.

trade paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; 323 pages; acceptable trade paperback; spine head tears where meets cover; spine heal tears where meets cover; stain and scuff to face cover; some tanning; tips bumped with chip; slight crease to cover; few nicks to edges cover; some highlighting few pages from a previous owner; pencil note back free end page from previous owner; prompt shipping with tracking.

"Herein lies the story of the miraculous discovery in a hat box of an unpublished opera by the late Richard Wagner, dealing in the most unique and climacteric manner with feminism, trial, marriage, bigamy and polygamy; its libretto and leit-motive. (illustrator). Very Good (covers nice & bright with tiny, light spot on rear cover; contents clean & tight). 16mo., pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 58 pages First Edition, printing B, with p. vii incorrectly paginated "vi." [BAL 22669].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 178 pages. Illustrated. "'How to Be an Emperor': Acting Alexander the Great in "opera seria" 'How to Be an Emperor': Acting Alexander the Great in "opera seria"" Richard G. King / "Ockeghem, Brumel, Josquin: New Documents in Troyes" Rob C. Wegman / "A Musical Fragment from Anglo-Saxon England" John Haines / "Pleyel's 'London' Symphonies" Arthur Searle / "A Newly Discovered Source of Vocal Chamber Music by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre and René Drouard de Bousset" Adrian Rose / "A Mangled Chime: The Accidental Death of the opera libretto in Civil War England" Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood / "The Uses of lute Song: Texts, Contexts and Pretexts for 'Historically Informed' Performance" Elizabeth Kenny.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 41 pages. (M18).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In English and French on facing pages. 54 pages. 253 x 169 mm. Very attractive front cover. Also: clippings from the Met program notes giving the roster for actual performances: dec. 3, 1927 with Rothier and frances alda, Nov 21, 26 with Martinelli and Mardones and Alda, Jan 19, 24 with Rothier, Tibbett and Alda, March 24, 23 with Mardones and Dec. 20, 1919 with Martinelli, Mardones and Farrar.

Wraps. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is "The Princess of the Canaries: Opera Bouffe in Three Acts and Four Tableaux - Libretto by A. Duru and H. Chivot, Music by Charles Lecocq - As Originally Performed for the First Time in America by Mr. Maurice Grau's French Opera Company at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Monday Evening, Sept. 10th, 1883" published in 1883 by the Metropolitan Printing and Engraving Establishment out of New York City. A left-stitched soft cover measuring 6-1/2" by 9-7/8" and containing 76 pages including interior paginated pages as well as blue covers. Printed directly following the first performance in the United States by Maurice Grau's French Opera Company at the Fifth Avenue Theatre (New York) on Monday evening, September 10, 1883, it contains a list of Characters on the first inside page; the remaining pages contain the complete opera in three acts with dialogue and lyrics (no music) in both French and English (with the French version appearing on the left page, and the English version appearing on the right page). The rear cover contains a splendid vintage ad, with illustration, of "Weber Grand, Square and Upright Pianos" ("Most Delicate and Impressive Effect"). Condition: the front cover is nearly detached but present; narrow chips along outer fold; covers lightly soiled; short closed edge tear and a few corner creases; closed tear to mid-rear cover; interior pages lightly foxed. Exceptionally rare.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. HBDJ, 1968, 1st american Edition, originally published in german 1963, Black cloth Red lettering Spine, F/F-, DJ light rub, wear & tiny Chips Extremities,221 pages.

Condition: Very good. - sc Quarto [11 inches high by 8-3/8 inches high]. 201 words typed on a sheet of cream paper with her address typed at the top. Signed "Constance DeJong". The left edge of the paper is darkened & there is a light paper-clip mark to the top left corner with a small, light stain just below the body of the letter. Very good. DeJong writes to Gary Wilkie of Contexts in Seattle to ask if she could present her new work there as part of a tour that will take her to Portland, Oregon. She encloses a photo and resume: "It's not very up to date in terms of the new work I'd be presenting or the recently completed book and opera I wrote with Philip Glass." A publicity sheet from Art Performances, New York states: "Constance DeJong is one of the young post-modern writers who has made performance a natural extension of her work as a writer. By blending some of the traditional techniques of theatre - lighting, movement, music - performances extend her work beyond the written word into an almost tactile presence, a context where the narrative can come to life.

Original flat backed colour illustrated souvenir concert programme in glossy red card wrapped covers [soft back]. 10'' x 7½''. Contains 60 pages with colour photographs and monochrome illustrations from the opera. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.