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The 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations

Hardback

Main Details

Title The 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jessica M. MacMurray
By (author) Allison Brewster Franzetti
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:1488
Dimensions(mm): Height 275,Width 215
Category/GenreClassical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Opera
Musical scores and lyrics
ISBN/Barcode 9781884822797
ClassificationsDewey:782.10268
Audience
General
Edition Annotated edition

Publishing Details
Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Publication Date 1 August 2002
Publication Country United States

Description

The most comprehensive one-volume collection of unabridged opera lyrics ever published presents today's most frequently performed operas in their original languages, alongside an English translation. A short synopsis of the plot (written by Allison Brewster Franzetti) precedes each libretto. - Beethoven - Bellini - Bizet - Boito - Borodin - Catalani - Charpentier - - Cimarosa - Debussy - Delibes - Donizetti - Giordano - Gluck - Gounod - - Handel - Humperdinck - Leoncavello - Masgani - Massenet - Meyerbeer - - Montemezzi - Monteverdi - Mozart - Mussorgsky - Offenbach - - Paderewski - Parker - Pergolesi - Ponchielli - Prokofiev - Puccini - - Purcell - Ravel - Rimsky-Korsakov - Rossini - Sant-Saens - Smetena - - Spontini - Strauss - Tchaikovsky - Thomas - Verdi - Wagner - Weber -