Introduction by dimitri mitropoulos (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine DJ. 1st Edition. 569 Pp. Fine In Near Fine Dj, With The Rare "Bmi Music Locater" Strip Produced For This Book, With Size Rulings, Laid In Loosely. Signed By California Artist Pasquale Napolitano, Who Did Many Architectural Murals In The 1920'S And 1930'S, And Who Illustrated Books For Armitage. Decorative Drawings By Alberta Sordini; Design By Merle Armitage (ilustrador).…

First Edition. Tall quarto; (xiv), 569pp. A Fine copy in a Fine illustrated dust jacket (faint extremity wear); in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold at spine and upper board, which is also ruled in blind. Downes describes "Marriage of Figaro", "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg", "Aida", "Carmen", "Tales of Hoffmann", "La Boheme", "La Tosca", "Der Rosenkavalier", "Love of Three Oranges", & "Wozzeck". With over 80 illustrations by Alberta Sordini; new piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. A classic Merle Armitage design with two-page title. Discography at rear lists the LP recordings and retains its 'Musicator' (BMI Recorded Music Locator) which enables the reader to conveniently locate and listen to any passage from these operas. '. one of the most beautiful books of opera ever published.' A superior copy. (Oversized book may require additional postage). …