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By: Debussy, Claude (text by Maeterlinck)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Librairie Theatrale: 1968
Seller ID: 7495
65pp. Libretto in French. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3247
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. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6950
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. View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1969
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 12558
Reprinted 1979. 342pp, music examples. View more info
By: Drogheda, Davison & Wheatcroft
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1981
Seller ID: 12561
208pp, 245 illustrations. Previous owners initials. A small repaired tear to back cover else very good. View more info
By: Everist, Mark
Price: £20.00
Publisher: California University Press: 2002
Seller ID: 8205
331pp, illustrations, music examples. The Paris Odeon enjoyed a brief but highly successful life during the Bourbon Restoration and its expansion of operatic repertoire through the introduction of foreign works changed the musical life of the city. This study traces the evolution of the Odeon, examining its internal administration, its relationships with composers, librettists, and the city's wider cultural life, and demonstrating how the original license, restricting th... View more info
By: Fay, Stephen and Wood, Roger
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1984
Seller ID: 12782
218pp. Colour and b/w plates. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. This book follows the production of the 'English Ring' at Bayreuth from its inception to performance. View more info
By: Garten, H.F.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: John Calder: 1977
Seller ID: 7273
159pp, frontis, 15 plates. Ex library, remains of plate on endpaper, usual stamps. View more info
By: Gilbert W.S. & Sullivan A.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1948
Seller ID: 3866
268pp, illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Neat signature & address of previous owner slightly chipped & price clipped dw View more info
By: Gilbert, Susie
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Faber & Faber: 2009
Seller ID: 12729
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. View more info
By: Giroud, Vincent
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 2010
Seller ID: 12263
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. View more info
By: Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1955
Seller ID: 12260
Libretto. English version by Edward J. Dent. Taped repair to base of spine. View more info
By: Goodwin, Noel
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Royal Opera House: 1980
Seller ID: 11056
48pp, + adverts, many illustrations, colour & b/w. View more info
By: Gossett, Philip
Price: £18.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2006
Seller ID: 12311
704pp, 92 musical examples. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. View more info
By: Grieb, Lyndal
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Scarecrow Press:
Seller ID: 7169
193pp. Ex library, withdrawn stamp, front endpaper & title page removed else very good. View more info
By: Harding, James
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Chappell: 1979
Seller ID: 10820
183pp, 8 plates. View more info
Price: £11.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1983
Seller ID: 12300
x, 181pp, text figures, music examples. ; Cambridge Opera Handbooks View more info
By: Higgins John
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape,: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3069
172pp, 12pp colour plates, 12pp b/w plates. A history of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera on its 50th anniversary. View more info
By: Higgins John
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1978
Seller ID: 3405
272pp, many illustrations. Peter Hall's production in 1977. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. View more info
By: Hughes, Spike
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Robert Hale: 1959
Seller ID: 7316
272pp, 245 musical illustrations. Ex library, front endpaper removed, good reading copy in good dust jacket View more info
