Ten Operatic Masterpieces
New York: Broadcast Music Incorporated/G. Ricordi & Company/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Tall quarto; (xiv), 569pp. A Fine copy in a Fine illustrated dust jacket (faint extremity wear); in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold at spine and upper board, which is also ruled in blind. Item #21213
Downes describes "Marriage of Figaro", "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg", "Aida", "Carmen", "Tales of Hoffmann", "La Boheme", "La Tosca", "Der Rosenkavalier", "Love of Three Oranges", & "Wozzeck". With over 80 illustrations by Alberta Sordini; new piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. A classic Merle Armitage design with two-page title. Discography at rear lists the LP recordings and retains its 'Musicator' (BMI Recorded Music Locator) which enables the reader to conveniently locate and listen to any passage from these operas. '... one of the most beautiful books of opera ever published.' A superior copy. (Oversized book may require additional postage),
Price: $100.00