10 operatic masterpieces / designed by Merle Armitage. Text by Olin Downes, with piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. [With more than eighty decorative drawings by Alberta Sordini. Produced and edited under the direction of L. William Hansen; Robert Sour, editorial advisor] Ten operatic masterpieces. Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Marker, Leonard. Operas Stories, plots, etc. Operas Discography. MT95 .T36 720.954 AGM Includes critical commentary, story of each opera, and excerpts arr. for piano, with words of arias in original languages. "Listing of LP recordings, with calibrations": p. 563-569. "BMI LP music selecter [sic]": inserted. New York: Scribner, 1952. 1952. 1952 Text 569 p. eng