Ten Operatic Masterpieces
Published by Broadcast Music Incorporated/G. Ricordi & Company/Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952
- First Edition
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Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA
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Tall quarto; (xiv), 569pp. A Fine copy in a Fine illustrated dust jacket (faint extremity wear); in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold at spine and upper board, which is also ruled in blind. Downes describes "Marriage of Figaro", "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg", "Aida", "Carmen", "Tales of Hoffmann", "La Boheme", "La Tosca", "Der Rosenkavalier", "Love of Three Oranges", & "Wozzeck". With over 80 illustrations by Alberta Sordini; new piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. A classic Merle Armitage design with two-page title. Discography at rear lists the LP recordings and retains its 'Musicator' (BMI Recorded Music Locator) which enables the reader to conveniently locate and listen to any passage from these operas. '. one of the most beautiful books of opera ever published.' A superior copy. (Oversized book may require additional postage).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Ten Operatic Masterpieces
- Author
- Downes, Olin (Introduction by Dimitri Mitropoulos)
- Publisher
- Broadcast Music Incorporated/G. Ricordi & Company/Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
- Publication year
- 1952
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First Edition.
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