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The Complete Operas of Verdi by Charles Osborne FIRST American Edition ©1969

$ 4.22

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Publication Year: 1969
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Language: English
  • Subject: Opera
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Author: Charles Osborne
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Condition: The book jacket is torn along the bottom right, there is a Doubleday price sticker on the back of the book jacket. My pictures serve as part of my description
  • Industry: Music
  • Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Genre: Classical, Opera & Ballet

    Description

    The Complete Operas of Verdi
    An Interpretive Study of the Librettos and Music and their Relation to the Composer's Life
    This book sets the twenty-six operas against the human background of their creation, relates the events
    in Verdi's life contemporary with each of them, makes vivid his often
    stormy relationships with his
    librettists and performers, describes the successes and failures of his first performances. (and so much more)
    468 Pages of reading
    The text of the book was set on the monotype in a type face called Baskerville