Kobbé, Gustave  1857-1918 <br/><br/>
Kobbé's illustrated opera book :  twenty-six of the world's best-loved operas /  
The Earl of Harewood. 
 - London :  Bodley Head,  ©1989. 
 - 160 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  27cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes glossary and index. 
<br/><br/> CONTENTS :  Le nozze di Figaro ; Don Giovanni ; Così fan tutte ; Die Zauberflöte /  Fidelio /  Il barbiere di Siviglia /  Lohengrin ; Tristan und Isolde ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg /  Rigoletto ; Il trovatore ; La traviata ; Aida ; Otello /  Carmen /  Boris Godounov /  Yevgeny Onyegin /  Cavalleria Rusticana /  Pagliacci /  La Bohème ; Tosca ; Madama Butterfly /  Der Rosenkavalier /  Její Pastorkyňa (Jenůfa) /  Porgy and Bess /  Peter Grimes /  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) --  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) --  Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) --  Richard Wagner (1813-1901) --  Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) --  Bizet (1838-1875) --  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) --  Peter Ilitsch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) --  Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) --  Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) --  Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) --  Richard Strauss (1864-1949) --  Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) --   George Gershwin (1898-1937) --  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). 
<br/><br/> " 'Opera is finished.' Hardly a decade goes by without some composer, conductor, or critic setting up this despairing howl, yet paradoxically, in the 1980s more and more people are discovering how satisfying - and entertaining - great opera can be. Kobbe's Illustrated Opera Book is designed specifically for such newcomers to the delights of opera, who would find the original Kobbe's Complete Opera Book daunting and too detailed as an introductory book. <br/>For this lavishly illustrated version, Lord Harewood has selected twenty-six of the best-loved operas, from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and gives a list of characters (with voice types), a summary of the plot. a brief performance history of the piece and a short critical appraisal, together with a glossary of technical terms, and an exhaustive index.<br/>Illustrated with stunning photographs, Kobbe's Illustrated Opera Book  is the perfect introduction to the dramatic, colourful, exhilarating world of opera. It is a book to turn to again and again, for fact or for diversion, and will find a place on the shelves of every opera-goer and music-lover." -- Dust jacket flap. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0370313003 9780370313009 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB8906421 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operas--Stories, plots, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.1  / KOB