200 ans d'opéra, La Scala
By: Giampiero Tintori.
Contributors: Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.; Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.; Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.; Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.; KEN-ART S.A.; Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.; Teatro alla Scala.
Edition: Ed. française.
Publisher: KEN-ART S.A.; Encyclopaedia Britannica, distributeur exclusif
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Genève; [London]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Teatro alla Scala.
Other titles: Deux cents ans d'opéra, La Scala; Edition du bicentenaire, La Scala
Notes: Issued in a box (63 x 48 x 8 cm.) containing also 6 sound discs (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. in case), 4 dioramas (47 pieces : col.), 4 souvenir booklets (12 p. each : ill. ; 15 cm. in case), and 2 art reproductions (photogravure, col. ; 60 x 45 cm.).
Sound discs contain the music of the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, and excerpts from La Bohème, by Giacomo Puccini, Aïda by Giuseppe Verdi, and Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini, as performed by the orchestra and choir of La Scala.
Dioramas are of sets from the operas Aïda and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Souvenir booklets give a brief synopsis of each opera.
Art reproductions are of chalk drawings of La Scala scenes.