01278cam a22002531  45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740400022000910500015001130820017001282450281001452600032004263000035004585000127004935040104006205050160007246500033008846500025009177000030009427000021009727400031009934055693BD-DhUL20161227141026.0790321s1952    nyuag    b    000 0 eng    a   52014163   aDLCcBD-DhULdDLC00aMT95b.T3600a720.954bAGM00a10 operatic masterpieces /cdesigned 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]  aNew York:bScribner,c1952.  a569 p.billus., music.c32 cm.  aIncludes critical commentary, story of each opera, and excerpts arr. for piano, with words of arias in original languages.  a"Listing of LP recordings, with calibrations": p. 563-569. "BMI LP music selecter [sic]": inserted.0 aMarriage of Figaro.--Master-singers of Nuremberg.--Aida.--Carmen.--Tales of Hoffmann.--Bohême.-- Tosca.--Rosenkavalier.--Love of three oranges.--Wozzeck. 0aOperasxStories, plots, etc. 0aOperasxDiscography.1 aDownes, Olin,d1886-1955.1 aMarker, Leonard.0 aTen operatic masterpieces.