A treasury of opera librettos.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1060
Subjects: Operas -- Librettos
Notes: "Twenty-one favorite operas in modern translation and original language, as performed at the Metropolitan and other leading opera houses in America"--Dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: Verdi, G.  Aïda.; title: Rossini, G.  The barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia); title: Puccini, G.  La Bohème.; title: Mussorgsky, M. P.  Boris Godunov.; title: Bizet, G.  Carmen.; title: Mascagni, P.  Cavalleria rusticana.; title: Mozart, W. A.  Così fan tutte.  Don Giovanni.; title: Verdi, G.  Falstaff.; title: Gounod, C.  Faust.; title: Puccini, G.  Madama Butterfly.; title: Mozart, W. A.  The magic flute (Die Zauberflöte)  The marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro); title: Verdi, G.  Otello.; title: Leoncavallo, R.  I pagliacci.; title: Wagner, R.  Parsifal.; title: Debussy, C.  Pelléas et Mélisande.; title: Verdi, G.  Rigoletto.; title: Wagner, R.  Siegfried.; title: Puccini, G.  Tosca.; title: Verdi, G.  La traviata.