Famous first representations.
Edwards. Henry Sutherland. ED aaa Famous first representations. By H. Sutherland Edwards.
= London. Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1886. vii, 253, (1) pp. 18% cm., in 8s. Contents. —The English Monsieur. — Moliére’s Tartuffe. — The beggar’s opera. — The Messiah. — Beaumarchais’s Marriage of Figaro. — Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro— Mozart’s Don Giovanni— Rossini’s Barber of Seville. — Ireland’s Vortigern. — Weber’s Der Freischutz. — Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable. — Victor Hugo’s Hernani. — Dumas the Younger’s Dame aux camélias. — Tannhauser at the Paris Opera, 1861. — The Ballet comique de la reine, and the origin of opera. Clippings are inserted.
 
This card was printcd at the Boston Public Library, February 25, 1914.
J193 — Opera. History. — Drama. Hist. and crit. — T.r.