10 operatic masterpieces
By: designed by Merle Armitage. Text by Olin Downes, with piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. [With more than eighty decorative drawings by Alberta Sordini. Produced and edited under the direction of L. William Hansen; Robert Sour, editorial advisor]
Contributors: Downes, Olin, 1886-1955.; Marker, Leonard.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
Subjects: Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.; Operas -- Discography.
Other titles: Ten operatic masterpieces.
Notes: "Listing of LP recordings, with calibrations": p. 563-569. "BMI LP music selecter [sic]": inserted.
Includes critical commentary, story of each opera, and excerpts arr. for piano, with words of arias in original languages.
Table of contents: title: Marriage of Figaro.; title: Master-singers of Nuremberg.; title: Aida.; title: Carmen.; title: Tales of Hoffmann.; title: Bohême.; title: Tosca.; title: Rosenkavalier.; title: Love of three oranges.; title: Wozzeck.