Lohengrin: The Story of Wagner's Opera.
New York: Artists & Writers Guild and Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. Hardcover. This Edition authorized by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. 42 pages. Color illustrated boards with identical jacket.
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Lohengrin: The Story of Wagner's Opera
London: Julia MacRae Books, 1981. Hardcover. 4to., 28 pp. Illustrated by Maria Antonietta Gambaro in color. First edition thus. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, printed upper pastedown and issued without free endpapers.
The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
New York: Dodd Mead, 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. 515pp. Plus 18 plates. Bound in cloth with gold gilt decoration and titling. Exhibits some wear at the extremities.
Bringing Opera to Life: Operatic Acting and Stage Direction
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo., 424 pp.
Richard Wagner's Musical Dramas
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. 162 pp. With illustrations and music scores. A study of Wagner's operas, music and drama. The book also analyzes his essays written on other musicians. Musical notations are included.
Gilbert and Sullivan: Lost Chords and Discords
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 264 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Account of the partnership between the two musical giants: Sir Arthur Sullivan [1842-1900] and W.S. Gilbert, W [William Schwenk] 1836-1911.
Behind the Gold Curtain: Fifty Years in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Delhi: Birch Brook, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo., 171 pp. Illustrated.
Porgy and Bess
New York: Al Greenstone / Artcraft Litho, 1942. Softcover. 4to. Unpaginated [16 pp.] With black and white photos throughout. Gershwin's classic Porgy and Bess Souvenir program. The play featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers, a risk on Broadway where it was initially unpopular. Porgy and Bess played the.....
History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon
White Plains: Pro-Am Music, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. The major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of opera history.
Grand Opera Librettos: Carmen
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. First edition.
Libretto for "Carmen"
New York: The Metropolitan Opera, 1969. Softcover. 8vo. English language translation.
The Stages of Menotti
Garden City: Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. 4to., 256 pp. With illustrations. Title-page and numerous color and black and white illustrations, some full-page.
Reflections on Wagner's Ring
New York: Viking, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Madama Butterfly 1904-2004: Opera at an Exhibition
Milan: Ricordi, 2004. Hardcover. Square 4to., 176 pp. Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Puccini opera. Includes more than 100 images, including period photos, scene and costume sketches, period posters and postcards, significant essays about the opera and its history, previously unpublished documents concerning the development of the opera and.....
![Item #211238 Der Dreigroschen Oper [The Threepenny Opera]. Kurt Weill](https://32-1rarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/211238.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676168785)
Der Dreigroschen Oper [The Threepenny Opera]
Munich: Francke & Co., ND. Softcover. Film program IFB No. S 6415, The Threepenny Opera, Curd JÙrgens, Hildegard Knef, Director: Wolfgang Staudte.Ê Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 10 1/2, " eight pages, folded in the middle.
The New York City Opera: An American Adventure with the Complete Annals.
New York: Macmillan, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. 526 pp. Illustrated. Index. An important reference resource.
A Grouping of 19 New York City Metropolitan Opera Company Libretti of a Range of Operas
New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., c1930-1940. Softcover. 8vo., staple bound in age toned paper. Varying page lengths. Grouping contains the following operas: The Rake's Progress, Violanta, Salome, Nabucco, Luisa Miller [2], Wozzeck, Peter Ibbetson, Amelia Goes to the Ball, Le Coq d'Or, Ernani, Elektra, La Juive, Linda di Chamounix, L'Amore.....
San Carlo Grand Opera Season Program, C. 1930s, Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles: Shrine Civic Auditorium, 1930. Six panel Program Guide.
Murder Meets Mephisto
New York: Bart House, 1945. Softcover. 12mo., Murder at The Metropolitan Opera, New York City.
![Item #11052360 Libretto for "Der Rosenkavalier" ["The Rose Bearer"]. Richard Strauss](https://32-1rarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11052360.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699227916)
Libretto for "Der Rosenkavalier" ["The Rose Bearer"]
New York: The Metropolitan Opera, 1969. Softcover. 8vo. English language translation.
Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung III": Siegfried
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. Alexandre Serebriakoff [illustrator]. The Authorized School Edition of The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. with special study help.
![Item #6022426 Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung IV": The Twilight of the Gods [Die Gotterdammerung]....](https://32-1rarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6022426.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717348985)
Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung IV": The Twilight of the Gods [Die Gotterdammerung]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 48 pp. Alexandre Serebriakoff [illustrator]. The Authorized School Edition of The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. with special study help.
Die Meistersinger von Nurrnberg: With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by W.P. Bigelow
New York: American Book Company, 1932. Hardcover. 16mo., 178 pp. Rare edition. WorldCat reports that no libraries with WorldCat.org subscriptions hold this item.
Between Acts: An Irreverent Look at Opera and Other Madness
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo., 240 pp. Black and white plates.
Bravi! Lyric Opera of Chicago Composed by Skrebneski
New York: Abbeville Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now uncommon. Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. Text by John von Rhein and Andrew.....