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Image for Opera & its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging

Opera & its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging

By: Donington, Robert

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 6950

ISBN: 0300047134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

248pp, illustrations, music examples. Discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions.
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Image for Wagner's Ring and its Symbols: The Music and the Myth

Wagner's Ring and its Symbols: The Music and the Myth

By: Donington, Robert

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1969

Seller ID: 12558

ISBN: 0571048188

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprinted 1979. 342pp, music examples.
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Image for The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera and Ballet

The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera and Ballet

By: Drogheda, Davison & Wheatcroft

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1981

Seller ID: 12561

ISBN: 0710008805

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

208pp, 245 illustrations. Previous owners initials. A small repaired tear to back cover else very good.
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Wagner the Dramatist

By: Garten, H.F.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: John Calder: 1977

Seller ID: 7273

ISBN: 0714536202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

159pp, frontis, 15 plates. Ex library, remains of plate on endpaper, usual stamps.
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Songs of Two Savoyards

By: Gilbert W.S. & Sullivan A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1948

Seller ID: 3866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

268pp, illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Neat signature & address of previous owner slightly chipped & price clipped dw
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Image for Opera for Everybody - The Story of English National Opera

Opera for Everybody - The Story of English National Opera

By: Gilbert, Susie

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 2009

Seller ID: 12729

ISBN: 0571224938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

720pp, plates. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum.
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French Opera. A Short History

By: Giroud, Vincent

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2010

Seller ID: 12263

ISBN: 0300117655

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

x, 366pp, 16 plates. From the 17th century to the present this book surveys of works by composers from Lully to Messiaen. Tracing the development of form and style, it profiles the performers and audiences, and unwraps the politics and the scandals.
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Orpheus: An Opera in Three Acts

By: Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1955

Seller ID: 12260

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Libretto. English version by Edward J. Dent. Taped repair to base of spine.
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The Royal Opera 1980/81

By: Goodwin, Noel

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Royal Opera House: 1980

Seller ID: 11056

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

48pp, + adverts, many illustrations, colour & b/w.
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Image for Divas and Scholars - Performing Italian Opera

Divas and Scholars - Performing Italian Opera

By: Gossett, Philip

Price: £18.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2006

Seller ID: 12311

ISBN: 0226304825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

704pp, 92 musical examples. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK.
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The Operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972: a Selective Bibliography

By: Grieb, Lyndal

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Scarecrow Press:

Seller ID: 7169

ISBN: 0810807432

Binding: Hardcover; Green Cloth/Silver Titles

193pp. Ex library, withdrawn stamp, front endpaper & title page removed else very good.
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Folies De Paris. The Rise and Fall of French Operetta.

By: Harding, James

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Chappell: 1979

Seller ID: 10820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

183pp, 8 plates.
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Image for Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

By: Hepokoski, James A.

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 12300

ISBN: 0521280168

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

x, 181pp, text figures, music examples. ; Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Glyndebourne: A Celebration

By: Higgins John

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape,: 1984

Seller ID: 3069

ISBN: 0224019058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

172pp, 12pp colour plates, 12pp b/w plates. A history of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera on its 50th anniversary.
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Image for The Making of an Opera. Don Giovanni At Glyndebourne

The Making of an Opera. Don Giovanni At Glyndebourne

By: Higgins John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1978

Seller ID: 3405

ISBN: 43619595X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

272pp, many illustrations. Peter Hall's production in 1977. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK.
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Image for The Operas of Benjamin Britten: An Introduction

The Operas of Benjamin Britten: An Introduction

By: Howard, Patricia

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Barrie & Rockliff: 1969

Seller ID: 12968

ISBN: 0214660559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

236pp. Ex library, book plate, usual stamps, siome pencil underlining.
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Image for Famous Puccini Operas: an Analytical Guide for the Opera-Goer and Armchair Listener

Famous Puccini Operas: an Analytical Guide for the Opera-Goer and Armchair Listener

By: Hughes, Spike

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1959

Seller ID: 7316

Binding: Hardcover

272pp, 245 musical illustrations. Ex library, front endpaper removed, good reading copy in good dust jacket
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Image for Verdi The Man & His Music

Verdi The Man & His Music

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1978

Seller ID: 285

ISBN: 0091323908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

182pp, 135 illustrations, some in colour.
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Image for The Age of Jean De Reszke. Forty Years of Opera 1874-1914

The Age of Jean De Reszke. Forty Years of Opera 1874-1914

By: Hurst, P. G.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Christopher Johnson: 1958

Seller ID: 10394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, frontis, 19 plates. Previous owner's book plate. Dust jacket worn with some loss in protective cover.
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Image for Alban Berg: Wozzeck

Alban Berg: Wozzeck

By: Jarman, Douglas

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 10805

ISBN: 0521284813

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

ix, 181pp, Illustrations, music examples. ; Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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