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Product Description: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E...read more

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9780714544151 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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9780714538532 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1983, cover price $19.95

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By Nicholas John (editor)

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9780714542720 | Trafalgar Square, August 25, 1994, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Verdi's War and Peace, writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed in 1862...read more

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9780714544243, titled "La Forza Del Destino (The Force of Destiny): English National Opera Guide 23" | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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Product Description: Two masterpieces of the late flowering genius of the Czech composer Leos Janacek are the subject of this double volume. Jenufa was the opera which finally brought him international recognition, and, with it. fame at home; it was the fruit of over 25 years of work...read more

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9780714540818 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two masterpieces of the late flowering genius of the Czech composer Leos Janacek are the subject of this double volume.

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Product Description: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail—with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times...read more

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9780714542782 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps.

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9780714538471 | Riverrun Pr, May 1, 1981, cover price $4.95

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Product Description: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail—with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times...read more
By Nicholas John (editor)

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9780714537719 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1983, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps.

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Product Description: Rare book

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9781419626869 | Createspace, January 26, 2006, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Rare book

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Product Description: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Winton Dean relates how Otello came into being as much because of the persistence of Verdi's publisher as of the composer's lifelong passion for Shakespeare, and the collaboration of the brilliant poet Arrigo Boito...read more

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9780714544113 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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At the pinnacle of success in Hollywood, international stage and film star Marshall Stone fears that the secret twist of fate that brought him fame and fortune could bring his idyllic world crashing down around him. Reprint.

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9781479365272 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 21, 2012, cover price $7.99 | also contains Rigoletto
9780714544182, titled "Rigoletto: English National Opera Guide 15" | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011, cover price $29.95
9780061005053, titled "Close-Up" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1992), cover price $5.50 | also contains Close-Up, Rigoletto | About this edition: At the pinnacle of success in Hollywood, international stage and film star Marshall Stone fears that the secret twist of fate that brought him fame and fortune could bring his idyllic world crashing down around him.

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Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more

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9780714538518 | Riverrun Pr, January 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Product Description: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Der Rosenkavalier has one of the longest and most exquisitely crafted texts of all opera...read more

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9780714544120, titled "Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose): English National Opera Guide 8" | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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9780714537726 | Riverrun Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. In this Guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady...read more

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9780714538488 | Oneworld Classics, January 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera.

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Product Description: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (later called music dramas). Wagner's musical style is often considered the epitome of classical music's Romantic period, due to its unprecedented exploration of emotional expression...read more

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9781406550658 | Dodo Pr, February 29, 2008, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (later called music dramas).
9780714538495 | Oneworld Classics, January 1, 1982, cover price $19.95

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By Nicholas John (editor), Edmund Tracey (trans) and Giuseppe Verdi (composer)

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9780714544410 | Rep blg edition (Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2011), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: An Opera score composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
By Giuseppe Verdi (composer)

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9780769277448 | Bilingual edition (Warner Bros Pubns, March 1, 1985), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An Opera score composed by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Product Description: The heroine of "La Traviata", seen against the background of her own time and of attitudes today, is the subject of this book. Alexandre Dumas's novel and play "La Dame aux Camellias" not only provided the source for Verdi's most popular opera but also acted as an icon for the literary image of women in the first half of the 19th century...read more
By Nicholas John (editor)

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9780571166657 | Faber & Faber, March 1, 1994, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The heroine of "La Traviata", seen against the background of her own time and of attitudes today, is the subject of this book.

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