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Title 10 operatic masterpieces; 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]

Imprint

New York, Scribner [1952]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	782.1 T25 c.2	---	Available

Description	569 p. illus., music. 30 + cm.
Note	Includes critical commentary, story of each opera, and excerpts arr. for piano, with words of arias in original languages.
Bibliography	"Listing of LP recordings, with calibrations": p. 563-569. "BMI LP music selecter [sic]": inserted.
Contents	Marriage of Figaro -- Master-singers of Nuremberg -- Aida -- Carmen -- Tales of Hoffmann -- Bohême -- Tosca -- Rosenkavalier -- Love of three oranges -- Wozzeck.
Subject	Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.
	Operas -- Discography.
Added Author	Downes, Olin, 1886-1955.
	Marker, Leonard
Added Title	Ten operatic masterpieces.