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Pelleas Et Melisande - Drame Lyrique En Cinq Actes

By: Debussy, Claude (text by Maeterlinck)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Librairie Theatrale: 1968

Seller ID: 7495

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

65pp. Libretto in French.
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The Royal Opera House in the Twentieth Century

By: Donaldson, Frances

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988

Seller ID: 3247

ISBN: 0297791788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

xvii, 238pp, 16 plates. Home of two of the most famous opera & ballet companies. In this official history the author discusses the achievements, the internal politics, the personalities and the ever-present problems of finance.
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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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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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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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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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