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Cultural Revolution Model Opera
Manuscript Ledger for Chinese Repertory Troupe
<p><b>CULTURAL REVOLUTION MODEL OPERA</b></p><p>Manuscript Ledger Master Inventory: General Record of Stage Props for a traveling Chinese theatrical repertory company introducing Revolutionary Opera into its program including costs for creating silk stage props sets costumes and scenery with various paper slip receipts some loose dated from 1963 to 1969. Oblong album measuring 7-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches contents with 20 numbered leaves of double-sided ruled ledger; bound in brown cloth-backed plain light blue paper board with lettered pink paper label decorative pattern endpapers originally with ribbon-tied spine now lost contents loose.</p><p>Includes entries for the revolutionary opera <i>Taking Tiger Mountain</i> 1968 with one entry bearing signature of Wang Xiu Wen dated 12 September 1967. Includes a pink silk armband laid into the album inscribed "Mei Ying Shan" which could be translated as Huaying Mountain. </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cjE0LDNycE8</p><p>There is also reference to a 1961 novel which the Bejing Film Studio made into a movie called <i>Lie Huo Zhong Yong Sheng</i> Living Forever in Burning Flame its IMDB title translated as <i>Red Crag</i> based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War 1949 and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang. The story takes place in Huaying Mountain.</p> hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 88091
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OPERA OVERTURES
Nyitányok
Pest: Rozsavölgyi & Comp. PN N.G. 1051-1075 1864. Folio. Publisher's original wrappers. 1f. decorative lithographed title by Langen 3-146 pp. Engraved. Each work with separate caption title and pagination. <br/><br/>25 overtures for solo piano:<br/>Auber: Fra Diavolo<br/>Auber: Der Maskenball. Báléj<br/>Auber: Die Stumme von Portici. Portici néma<br/>Beethoven: Coriolan<br/>Beethoven: Egmont<br/>Beethoven: Fidelio<br/>Beethoven: Leonore 1805<br/>Beethoven: Leonore 1806<br/>Beethoven: Prometheus<br/>Bellini: Norma<br/>Bellini: Der Pirat. Piráták<br/>Bellini: Die Puritaner. Puritánusok<br/>Bellini: Romeo et Julia<br/>Bellini: Die Nachtwandlerin. Alva járó<br/>Bellini: La Straniera<br/>Boildieu: Johann von Paris. Párisi János<br/>Boildieu: Die weisse Dame. Fehér Nő<br/>Cherubini: Lodoiska<br/>Cherubini: Der Wasserträger. A vizhordó<br/>Donizetti: Belisar<br/>Donizetti: Der Liebestrank. Bájital<br/>Donizetti: Lucia von Lammermoor<br/>Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia<br/>Gluck: Alceste<br/>Gluck: Armida<br/><br/>Wrappers worn and frayed; tape repairs to corners; spine reinforced with paper tape; previous owner's handstamp and ink titling to upper. Light foxing and offsetting throughout. Mona 1925. Rozsavölgyi & Comp. [PN N.G. 1051-1075] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 32020
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OPERA 20th Century
Poster for the Metropolitan Opera Centennial featuring 11 printed caricatures by Al Hirschfeld of contemporary opera singers surrounding a large birthday cake
1983. Image size 556 x 352 mm overall size 630 x 430 mm. On glossy dark red stock. <br/><br/>From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne b. 1934.<br/><br/>Edges slightly worn; verso of mount foxed. "Horne had a voice of extraordinary range rich and tangy in timbre with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top. In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist singing lieder mélodies Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 31384
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BALLET 18th Century
Pygmalion of Het Beeld Bezield Door de Liefde; zo als hetzelve door Carolina en Charlotta Frederic oud 9 en 7 Jaaren op den Amsteldamschen Schouwburg in het laatste des Jaars 1758 gedanst is. Engraving by Jan Punt 1711-1779 after George van der Myn 1723-1763
Paris: Basan 1759. 385 x 260 mm. Printed on laid paper. <br/><br/>The outdoor scene with trees and statuary depicts Caroline and Charlotte daughters of Frédéric Sluyter performing in a production of Pygmalion at the Schouwberg Theatre in Amsterdam. The dancer at left is on her right foot with arms outstretched costumed in a dress with a low rounded neckline pointed waistline and a wide panniered skirt; the dancer at right is on her left foot with arms outstretched wearing male attire including cocked hat frock coat with stiff flared skirt breeches and heeless shoes. <br/><br/>Browned; small stain to lower right corner. Scarce. NYPL: b12155632. BM 1854 0614.342.<br/><br/>Caroline and Charlotte Frédéric were part of a troupe of child performers active in Amsterdam in the 1760s. Basan unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29663
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BALLET 20th Century
Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo Director General - W. de Basil Artistic Director - Renée Blum Maître de Ballet - Léonide Massine Full Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Efrem Kurtz Régisseur Général - Serge Grigorieff. Program for the 1933 season at The Alhambra Theatre London
Small quarto. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in light purple stapled. 16 pp. <br/><br/>With synopses of the 9 ballets in the repertory Les Présages Le Beau Danube La Concurrence Scuola di Ballo Le Lac des Cygnes Beach Prince Igor Petrouchka and Nocturne notes the works to be performed each day between August 14th and August 26th principals and soloists and orchestral players listed by instruments. <br/><br/>A printed revised list of works to be performed on a smaller sheet laid in; one work has been crossed out in manuscript with another added in its place. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 24428
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Opera News ed.
THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE; the life & times of the Met.
New York: Viking Press 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Illus. Folio. <br/><br/>The Metropolitan Opera Co. in New York. Viking Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 951
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BALLET 20th century. Pick Mangiagalli Riccardo 1882 1949
Il "Carillon" Magico Libretto
Milano: G. Ricordi & C. 1919. Octavo. original publisher's purplie wrappers titled in ivory. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. cast list verso blank 5-19 pp.<br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp dated February 2 1919. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and creased; "18" in red pencil to upper. Uniformly browned. First Edition. <br/><br/>"As a composer Pick-Mangiagalli excelled in light ballet music: already in Il salice d'oro there is a pleasing if facile tunefulness combined with Viennese dance rhythms and spiced with harmonies and orchestration reminiscent of Strauss and Ravel. In Il carillon magico Pick-Mangiagalli's most successful stage work this promise reached fulfilment: though slight the style is recognizably personal with frequent unrelated triads chromatic slithers unusually placed augmented triads and diminished 7th chords and so on. Musical means are perfectly matched to dramatic context." John C.G. Waterhouse in Grove Music Online. G. Ricordi & C. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 34015
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OPERA BROADSIDE
Broadside announcing performances of Italian opera and ballet at the Theatre Royal Opera House in Brighton England December 15-19 1874. "Mr. H. Nye Chart has much pleasure in announcing that he has entered into arrangements with the Director of Her Majesty's Opera London to give a series of Grand Italian Operas for six nights only terminating Saturday Dec. 19. The Band & Chorus will be considerably strengthened by members of Her Majesty's Opera. the Ballet from Her Majesty's Opera.
Brighton England: T. Phillips 1874. Large narrow folio ca. 760 x 250 mm. <br/><br/>Works to be performed included Auber's "Caterina" Balfe's "Il Talismano" and Mozart's "Don Giovanni." With an announcement of the Christmas pantomime "Froggy Would a Wooing Go! Or Harlequin Lily White Duck The Pretty Princess and the Fairies of the Dancing Waters."<br/><br/>Notable performers included Costa Catalani Grazzi Casaboni Roze Singelli and Titiens. <br/><br/>Slightly worn and torn; lower right corner repaired; creased at folds. T. Phillips unknown books
Bookseller reference : 31443
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OPERA 20th Century Chinese
Peking Opera North American Tour 1980. Souvenir program
Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in colour. 32 pp. <br/><br/>Includes an essay on the company the stage the music and the actors by A.C. Scott together with synopses of operas in the repertoire. With photographic illustrations in colour and black-and-white throughout. <br/><br/>Slightly worn. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 27798
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BALLET 20th Century
The Royal Ballet Covent Garden under the direction of Ninette de Valois. Souvenir program
London 1957. Quarto. Wrappers. 72 pp. <br/><br/>With short historical articles synopses of ballets and their productions and repertory list. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and occasional colour photographs of performers several of which are autographed by their subjects including Margot Fonteyn Svetlana Beriosova Nadia Nerina Maryon Lane and Kenneth Alwyn conductor. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 27822
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Houston Grand Opera
TREEMONISHA 1975 Theatre window card poster for Scott Joplin adaptation
No binding. Very Good. FIne Art Print Scott Joplin book music Washington D.C. 1975. Vintage original 22 x 14"" 56 x 36 cm. window card poster some wear and handling at edges some light creases but VERY GOOD or better with bright colors. Scott Joplin master of ragtime music wrote this opera in 1911 a celebration of African-American life and culture set on an Arkansas plantation in a variety of musical styles. It never got a full performance in his lifetime. In the 1970s the opera began to be rediscovered. This poster is for a Washington tryout of a Houston Grand Opera production prior to a Broadway run. unknown books
Bookseller reference : WALTER-FILM004294
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Instituto de Folklore Mexicano y Ballet Folklorica Mexica present
Fiesta Folklorica Mexicana featuring Ballet Folklorico Universidad de Sonora playybill April 24 1994 3pm at University of Arizona Centennial Hall
Tucson: University of Arizona 1994. Four-panel playbill folded to 7x8.5 inches program on interior panels with participant list production staff on rear cover illustration of Mexican traditional dress very good on light blue stock. University of Arizona unknown books
Bookseller reference : 244083
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San Francisco Peking Opera Club
A program in five parts: Prologue The Golden Tower A chance marriage The fourth General Yang plans to visit his mother Ascending the throne
San Francisco: the Club 1968. 36p. staplebound booklet 8.5x11 inches minor handling wear and dust soil. Includes photos of performers explanatory text and advertisements. the Club unknown books
Bookseller reference : 215764
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McEwan Ian and Michael Berkeley
FOR YOU. THE LIBRETTO
London: Vintage Books 2008. First edition limited issue of 1000 numbered copies signed by McEwan and Berkeley on the title page. Copy #329. Printed label affixed to half-title page as issued. Perfect-bound illustrated card wraps with French-fold flaps. Fine condition. McEwan's libretto for Berkeley's opera which was first performed on May 31 2008. Signed by Author & Composer. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Vintage Books Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 41936 ISBN : 0099526662 9780099526667
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METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
NY: Metropolitan Opera Association 1933. Program Saturday afternoon January 7 1933. The Emperor Jones after Eugene O'Neill's play. By Louis Gruenberg. Lawrence Tibbett as Brutus Jones. Scenic production designed by Jo Mielziner. Also Pagliacci. Conducter Tullio Serafin. VG. Metropolitan Opera Association unknown books
Bookseller reference : 26486
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METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD Inc
OPERA CAVALCADE:; The story of the Metropolitan
NY: Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc 1938. 4to pp. 68. VG cover little worn at edges slightly worn dj. List of Met artists 1938-39 glued on pastedown. Owner's signature on flyleaf. OP. Photographs and details about pre-1938 performances and artists. Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc unknown books
Bookseller reference : 15899
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Opera Bing Rudolf. 1902 1997 Graf Herbert.
"The Opera and Its Future in America" inscribed at Christmas to Rudolf Bing
New York: Norton 1941. First edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Hardcover. 8vo. 305 pp. Inscribed of the front free endpage to Rudolf Bing Austrian-born opera impresario who worked in Germany the United Kingdom and the United States most notably being General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972.  "To Mr. Rudolf Bing with all best wishes for his important work "The Opera and its Future in America" from Hubert Graf / New York X-Mas 1949."  Blue cloth binding sunned and stained with tears and wear to corners internally fine. <br style=""><br><br><br /><br style=""> Norton hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 18141
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Opera. Polya Diane Editor
OPERA De VICHY. Album - Programme. 3 Juin - 15 Octobre 1995
Vichy 1995. Brown and gold wrap around photographic image on paper wrappers with white title lettering to front wrapper. A Nr Fine book. 112 pp. Several photographic images. 12" x 9" <br/><br/> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 33894
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Music / Opera. German Opera Troupe Company. Grover Leonard Director. Anschutz Carl Conductor. Mitchell Maggie Perfo
FAUST. Boston Theatre. May 14 1864
Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. VG some creasing folding and wrinkling to edges small horizontal tear to mid left edge. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>A scarce broadside playbill from an early American production of Gounod's Faust in five acts as originally performed at Paris' Theatre Lyrique in 1859 which would later be selected as the inaugural opera performance of the New York Met in 1883. This bill advertises research suggests the same Opera Company as first brought Faust to the States initially performing it at the Philadelphia Academy of Music 1863 cf. Armstrong. RECORD Of The OPERA In PHILADELPHIA. Includes advertisement for Miss Maggie Mitchell on May 16 1864 performing Fanchon The Cricket. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
Bookseller reference : 32827
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Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House October 8 to November 5 S. Hurok Presents Fall Victory Season of Russian Ballet by the Ballet Theatre with Massine Gollner Kaye Laing Chase Hightower Petroff Karnilova Romanoff J. Reed Tudor Kriza Alonso Orloff Robbins Lang R. Reed.
American Ballet Theatre <i>Metropolitan Opera House October 8 to November 5 S. Hurok Presents Fall Victory Season of Russian Ballet by the Ballet Theatre with Massine Gollner Kaye Laing Chase Hightower Petroff Karnilova Romanoff J. Reed Tudor Kriza Alonso Orloff Robbins Lang R. Reed. Guest Artists: Anton Dolin Riabouchinska Youskevitch Lichine Eglevsky Argentinita Pilar Lopez & Co. and by Special Arrangement Tamara Toumanova. Antal Dorati Musical Director Mois Zlatin Associate Director. </i>A snake-broadside 79 cm x 7 cm announcing the repertory for performances at the Metropolitan Opera from October 8 to November 5 1950. While there is no year published on this broadside George Balanchine's <i>Waltz Academy </i>had its world and New York premieres on October 5 and 11 1944 respectively and <i>Pas de Deux </i>had its premiere on April 9 1946 featuring Alicia Alonzo and Andre Eglevsky. Sunday fell on October 8 and 22 only in 1950 and 1944. This surviving snake-broadside is folded and in pristine condition. Blue ink on cream paper. A rare surviving ephemeral document listing the repertory and legendary dancers of Ballet Theatre in the years immediately following World War II. S. Hurok books
Bookseller reference : 285
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Harkness Ballet
Harkness Ballet Programs 1967
New York: Harkness Ballet 1967. Hardcover. VG- ex-library. binding has some wear and soiling. most programs are well preserved though some have toning or minor flaws. Blue library buckram. Unpaginated. Most programs are bw with a few in color. The title is a descriptive title as the book was not published as such. This volume contains a collection of approximately 35 programs from performances by the Harkness Ballet of New York bound together. The programs come from venues where the company toured January 31 1967 to Dec 10 1967 and the few missing programs Frederick MD Detroit MI Chicago NYC Broadway are noted. Includes mulitple copies of Broadway Theatre Playbill Program Vol. 4 No. 11 November 1967. Harkness Ballet hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 134377
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Ballet Theatre
S. Hurok presents The Ballet Theatre; Coast to Coast Tour 1942 1943 program
New York: Program Publications 1943. Softcover. VG- edges slightly darkened and 1.5 inch tear along lower spine. Pink and blue stapled wraps with color illustrations. Approx 56 pp. Profuse black and white photos four full-colour half-page reproductions two by Marc Chagall one by Roberto Montenegro one by Julio Castellano. From the "Commuique from S. Hurok": "Ballet in time of war is not merely a form of amusement. In a world threatened with a forced return to the dark ages the ballet spotlights the future and the reward of vistory." Program Publications paperback books
Bookseller reference : 130877
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Ballet Armitage Karole and David Salle
3 Years of The Ballet Stage
Japan: Kyoto Shoin International 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Brief text in English and Japanese by Peter Schjeldahl. Illustrated with many full-page color photographs. Dance as painting. A near fine copy in illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Kyoto Shoin International hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 14592
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Ballet Russes S. Hurok
Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
New York: Nicolas Publishing Co 1936. First edition. Paperback. Good . Tall quarto. Unpaginated. Program guide for the 1936 - 37 season for S. Hurok's Ballets Russes. Filled with photographs advertisements and descriptions of coming events and the players involve. Covers worn. A good to very good copy in tall illustrated stapled wrappers. <br/><br/> Nicolas Publishing Co paperback books
Bookseller reference : 14000
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Ballet Schorer Suki
Balanchine Technique
New York: Alfred Knopf 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this 426 pp book of photographs and text by Suki Schorer on Balanchine's dance technique. A near fine oversize clothbound book in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED by Suki as well as SIGNED BY SEVEN MEMBERS of the New York Ballet including Dana Hauson Peter Boal and others. Unique copy. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Alfred Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008664
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Russell Braddon
Joan Sutherland
<p>First edition second printing. Octavo. 16 illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped; a few nicks; short tears. Very good. 256 pages.</p><p>Boldly inscribed on front free endpaper by Sutherland 1926 - 2010 famous Australian soprano: "Sincerely Joan Sutherland."</p> Collins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2221988
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BLISS HELENA
PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED
<p>8" x 10". Half-length pose by John E. Reed Hollywood signed and inscribed to Joseph Huntley. Very good.</p><p>Signed and inscribed to African-American usher and autograph collector Joseph Huntley.</p><p>Bliss 1917-2014 soprano; in various operettas on Broadway. One film credit.</p> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 503462
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BALLET RUSSES HOTEL DES VENTES DU CHATEAU
SPECTACLE BALLET RUSSES THEATRE MUSIC HALL
VERSAILLES HOTEL DES VENTES DU CHATEAU 2007. Eric Pillon Encheres. 4to. Good condition. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 2283
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FLOHRI VIRGINIA
Double Weight Photograph Signed
<p>Half-length pose by Witzel Los Angeles signed and inscribed: "To Joseph Huntley - With the best of good wishes Virginia Flohri 1927." 9 1/2" x 7 /12" Very good. Rare.</p><p>Flohri 1893-1974 opera singer; screen credit "Alibi" 1929.</p> unknown books
Bookseller reference : 503491
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Opera Patti Adelina. 1843 1919
Jumbo Cabinet Photograph
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Full length jumbo 1884 Mora of NY cabinet photograph of the great soprano. Edges in gilt in very fine condition and rare in this large format. 7.5 x 13 inches 19 x 33 cm. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 10572
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Opera Santley Charles. 1834 1922
Autograph Musical Quotation from Gounod's "Mireille"
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. AMQS of four measures from the aria "Si les filles d'Arles sont reines" from Gounod's opera "Mireille" signed by one of the great stars of the English and world opera and concert stages for more than half a century beginning in 1857. He was closely identified with the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah which he first performed in 1858. Santley whose sister Kate Santley was herself a musical and comedy star wrote four books two of them autobiographical. In 1907 he became the first singer to be knighted.<br><br />Neatly penned in blue ink on a slip printed with a quotation from Shakespeare. Laid down on pink backing paper with slight wrinkling but otherwise in fine condition. 9.7 x 7.6 cm. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 12700
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Opera Lecocq Charles. 1832 1918 & Faure Jean Baptiste. 1830 1914 & Capoul Victor. 1839 1924 & Dejazet Pauline Virginie.
Autograph Musical Quotations and Inscriptions to Delphine Ugalde
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Impressive collection of AMQS and inscriptions addressed to the celebrated soprano Delphine Ugalde on both sides of a large album leaf measuring 31.5 x 23.5 cm 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fine. <br><br />The recto with: eight measures written and signed by the French composer Charles Lecocq from his wildly successful "La fille de Madame Angot" which when premiered in Paris in 1873 was performed for more than 400 nights consecutively. Inscribed to Ugalde and dated 20 May 1873; an unidentified inscription; a heartfelt inscription from Rossini's friend and biographer Alexis Azevedo dated 17 July 1870. <br><br />The verso with: a three-measure 1869 quotation by Fauré celebrated French baritone and composer creator of important roles by Massé Thomas Meyerbeer Verdi and others who has penned a selection from his own Sacred Song for Voice and Piano "Les Rameaux" with a trimmed albumen photograph of him affixed beneath; a heartfelt 1869 inscription by Capoul the great French tenor creator of Offenbach's Vert-Vert and Masse's Paul et Virginie who writes that he is "so happy of your return to us that I embrace you as strongly as I admire you"; an 1870 inscription from Dejazet important French actress who writes that her "voice remains always charming even when it is speaking it is your great heart which sings" and with a trimmed albumen photograph of her affixed beneath; with one additional unidentifed inscription lower left dated 1873. <br><br />Ugalde "studied in Paris with Cinti-Damoreau and made her début in 1848 at the Opéra-Comique as Angèle in Auber's Le domino noir a role created by her teacher. In 1851 she sang at Her Majesty's Theatre London as Delilah in Auber's L'enfant prodigue. In 1858 she sang Leonora Il trovatore at the Paris Opéra and was then engaged at the Théâtre Lyrique. In 1863 she moved to the Bouffes-Parisiens where in 1867 she sang in her own operetta Halte au moulin. She retired in 1871." Elizabeth Forbes Grove Online unknown books
Bookseller reference : 12692
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Opera Scheidemantel Karl 1859 1923
Autograph Signature
Bold autograph signature of the important baritone closely associated with the roles of Wolfram Hans Sachs Kurnewal and Amfortas and creator two major Strauss roles including Herr von Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier. On an album page measuring 12 x 15.5 cm and dated Dreseden December 1902. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 12631
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BALDINI Gabriele
Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera
NY:: Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0521229111 . Translated from the Italian and edited by Roger Parker. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 41218 ISBN : 0521229111 9780521229111
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SADIE Stanley editor
Puccini and His Operas
NY:: St. Martin's. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0312244185 . Part of The New Grove Composers Series. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 40471 ISBN : 0312244185 9780312244187
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OSBORNE Charles
Complete Operas of Richard Wagner
North Pomfret:: Trafalgar Square Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0943955335 . First American edition. Remainder mark on top edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Trafalgar Square Publishing, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 38360 ISBN : 0943955335 9780943955339
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DOUGLAS Nigel
Joy of Opera
London:: Andre Deutsch. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 023398965X . Illustrated. First British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Andre Deutsch, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 36955 ISBN : 023398965X 9780233989655
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BALLET FOLKLORICO
Four 4 Variant Vintage Original Photographs
Photographs not signed of a group of Latin American dancers believed to be Ballet Florklorico de Mexico. 1. Group shot of 21 musicians and dancers. 2. Two women in long shirts singing. 3. Woman with man wearing a poncho. 4. Man with painted face dancing with woman. Photographs are on single stock; 8" x 10"; very good mounting traces on two; minor signs of handling; ca. 1940. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 606870
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OLAND Warner and Boris Karloff "CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA"
Old Restrike Photograph
not signed on a 3/4 length shot of Boris Karloff having a conversation with Warner Oland in a scene from the 1936 film "Charlie Chan at the Opera." Photograph is on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 606055
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WAGNER Nike
Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty
Princeton: Princeton University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 069108811X . Translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Michael Downes. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Princeton University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 26033 ISBN : 069108811X 9780691088112
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PRESTON Katherine K
Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States 1825-60
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0252019741 . First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . University of Illinois Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23688 ISBN : 0252019741 9780252019746
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DIGAETANI John Louis
Carlo Gozzi: A Life in the 18th Century Venetian Theater an Afterlife in Opera
Jefferson: McFarland & Company. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. 0786400773 . First edition. Fine in red cloth. No dust jacket. . McFarland & Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23461 ISBN : 0786400773 9780786400775
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Ballet and Opera
Beauties of the Opera and Ballet. Illustrated with Ten Highly-Finished Portraits Engraved on Steel and Numerous Engravings on Wood Under The Superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath
London. David Bogue. 1844. Lavishly bound in sumptuous tri-gilt ruled full crimson calfskin. Gilt tooled fleurette motifs to corners of front and rear covers. Elaborate gilt ruled spine compartments with intensely ornate gilt tooled fleural vignettes. Gilt tooled raised bands. Decorative gilt tooled and titled morocco label. Elaborate and ornate paneled turn-ins. Marbled endsheets. a.e.g. 4to. 7.25" x 10.75". The First Edition. Illustrated with ten full page illuminated steel plate engravings and further throughout by various wood engravings en texte. Elaborate multi-chromatic decorative borders to each page. A Fabulous production detailing the mid-Victorian Opera and Ballet featuring plate engravings of notable singers dancers and productions. With its high gloss engravings whimsical en texte woodcuts and highly stylized colour page borders this volume represents one of the finest examples of Victorian book design. Niles and Leslie V1-225; Moroda-1272. Some darkening and/or mild scuffing to covers. Hinges present previous repairs but are tight and firm. Corners gently bumped. Head and tail pieces lightly chipped. A very Good copy of this breathtaking work. David Bogue. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 8333
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THE GERMAN OPERA COMPANY
1930 Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium Brochure. 2 Page Advertising Program
Los Angeles 1930. 10 7/8" x 8 1/2"; 1 large sheet front and back; very good one fold in the middle; minor signs of handling; 1930. 1. La Argentina - Spanish Dancers With Miguel Berdion pianist Thursday night January 9 1930 & Saturday night January 11 1930. 2. Wagner's "The Ring" with Juliette Lippe and Johanna Gadski and The German Opera Company. Vintage Original 1930 Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium Brochure. 2 Page Advertising Program. No Binding. Very Good. Los Angeles, 1930. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 608297
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WILBUR SUSIE WILBUR KIRWIN OPERA COMPANY
Autograph Letter Signed
"Susie Kirwin" in black fountain pen ink on Wilbur Kirwin Opera Company letterhead Salt Lake City Utah June 12 1901. 5" x 7 7/8"; 3 separate pages; very good staple holes in the upper left corner of each page; mounting traces on the back of page 3; minor signs of handling; 1901. To William W. Marmon: Susie Kirwin praises Marmon's skin cream and offers a business proposition ". . .we have 35 people using 'cold cream'. .send me the pound jar at once. . .". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 606789
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OPERA
OPERA AT HOME
LONDON GRAMOPHONE 1921. REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION VERY GOOD. LONDON, GRAMOPHONE, 1921 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 14432
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ohne Autor
L'art du Ballet, des origines á nos jours, par 20 Ècrivains et Critiques de la Danse.
Edit.du Tambourin Aire, ca,1952. origi.Broschur, 8°, 337 Seiten. Text auf französisch.
Bookseller reference : 12133
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P. Virgili Maronis
Opera illustrata a Chr. G.Heyne. II.
Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1968. origi.Leinenband, 8°, 1044 Seiten.
Bookseller reference : 12444
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Valéry, Paul - Cocteau und Serge Jean - Lifar
Serge Lifar. A L'OPERA . Orné De Croquis De Mouvements Par L. Pageot-Rousseaux .
Thibault De Champrosay, Paris. 1943. unpaginiert. 34*25,5 cm. OHalbleinenband.
Bookseller reference : 157472
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Henze, Hans Werner [Komponist], Wystan H. [Textverf.] [Beteiligt] Auden, Chester Kallman
Die Bassariden [= The Bassarids] : Musikdrama in einem Akt ; Klavierauszug ED 8121 / von W. H. Auden und Chester Kallman. - Musik von Hans Werner Henze.
Mainz [u.a.] : Schott, c 1993. 553 S. 4°. Revid. 1992. OBroschur.
Bookseller reference : 31887
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