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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition with some foxing/tanning to page block. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. 1954 1st edition. Has a removable plastic cover fitted. Price clipped.

About the book >.>.> Here is the third volume of Mr. Newman’s famous Opera Nights series. This is a book for intelli gent opera-goers to read before the performance. It is not planned as a book of musical criticism: its object is the simple and practical one of helping the listener to opera whether in the theatre or in his own home to get a clearer view of each work as the composer himself saw it.Mr. Newman makes extensive examination of seventeen operas from this point of view. He tells of the origin of the stories their development at the hands of com poser and librettist casts many a clear-sighted but affectionate glance on their weak and strong points and then describes the marriage of this material to the music.Those who know Mr. Newman’s work will not need to be told that here they will find a combination of scholarship wit and humanity that is unique in contemporary writing on music.The operas considered in this volume are Salome La Boh?me The Barber of Seville The Marriage of Figaro Tosca Fidelio Don Giovanni The Tales of Hoffmann Carmen Madam Butterfly Der Freisch?tz La Traviata Rigoletto Il Trovatore Aida Otello and The Magic Flute.