The Metropolitan Opera: Stories of the Great Operas

by John W. Freeman

Book Overview

The opera-goer's indispensable guide. About to see Rossini's William Tell, Verdi's I Lombardi, Gluck's Alceste, Philzner's Palestrina, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream? The stories of these operas and 120 others are told, clearly and concisely, in this companion volume to the highly successful Metropolitan Open Stories of the Great Operas. Opera News associate editor John W. Freeman untangles and summarizes the often complicated plots and provides,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393040518
• ISBN13: 9780393040517
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.5"