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245 00 a| English National Opera guides.n| Volume one,p| La Cenerentola, Aida, The Magic Flute, Fidelio /c| edited by Nicholas John ; with a foreword by Lord Harewood.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographies and discographies.;

500 a| The individual English National Opera guides were first published in 1980 as separate volumes.;

520 a| This first volume of ENO Guides contains complete bi-lingual libretti of Verdi's Aida, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Beethoven's Fidelio and Mozart's The Magic Flute, four key works in the operatic repertoire. There are also a number of articles giving the historical background to each work and others by those directly concerned with modern production, indicating present day significance and how these 18th and 19th century works should be approached in the later 20th century. The volume is fully illustrated and contains thematic guides, bibliographies and discographies with much fascinating information about the works in question.;

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700 12 a| Ghislanzoni, Antonio,d| 1824-1893.t| Aïda.l| English.=| ^A1228455;

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English National Opera guides. / edited by Nicholas John ; with a foreword by Lord Harewood.

Format	Book
Publication Info	London : John Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press, 1980.
Description	412 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Cenerentola. Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Aïda. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fidelio (1814) Operas--Librettos.

Other author/creator	John, Nicholas, editor.
Included Work	Ferretti, Jacopo, 1784-1852. Cenerentola. English.
Included Work	Ferretti, Jacopo, 1784-1852. Cenerentola. Italian.
Included Work	Ghislanzoni, Antonio, 1824-1893. Aïda. English.
Included Work	Ghislanzoni, Antonio, 1824-1893. Aïda. Italian.
Included Work	Schikaneder, Emanuel, 1751-1812. Zauberflöte. English.
Included Work	Schikaneder, Emanuel, 1751-1812. Zauberflöte. German.
Included Work	Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835 Fidelio. (1814). English.
Included Work	Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835 Fidelio. (1814). German.
Series	Opera library English National Opera guide ; 1-4 English National Opera guide ; 1-4. ^A1147636 Opera library. ^A911103
Contents	Foreword / Lord Harewood -- La Cenerentola = (Cinderella) / Gioachino Rossini. Fairy tale and opera buffa: the genre of Rossini's 'La Cenerentola' / Philip Gossett -- La Cenerentola: a musical commentary / Arthur Jacobs -- Cinderella in performance: two conversations / Mark Elder & Colin Graham -- Thematic guide -- La Cenerentola = Cinderella / libretto by Giacomo Feretti ; English version by Arthur Jacobs -- Aida / Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi's Egyptian business / Michael Rose -- Aida: text and music / William Mann -- The genesis of Aida / Roger Parker -- Thematic guide -- Aida / libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni ; English version by Edmund Tracey -- The Magic flute / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Introduction to Magic Flute ; Synopsis / Nicholas John -- Singspiel and symbolism / Rodney Milnes -- A vision of reconciliation / David Cairns -- A public for Mozart's last opera / Nicholas John -- Thematic guide -- The Magic Flute / libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder and Carl Ludwig Giesecke ; English version by Michael Geliot (lyrics) and Anthony Besch (dialogue) -- Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven. Introduction to Fidelio / Elizabeth Forbes -- Fidelio: an operatic marriage / Basil Deane -- Leonore: an extract from Romain Rolland's Beethoven the Creator / translated by Ernest Newman -- Thematic guide -- Fidelio / libretto after Bouilly by Sonnleithner, Breuning and Treitschke ; English version by Tom Hammond (lyrics) and Rodney Blumer (dialogue).
Abstract	This first volume of ENO Guides contains complete bi-lingual libretti of Verdi's Aida, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Beethoven's Fidelio and Mozart's The Magic Flute, four key works in the operatic repertoire. There are also a number of articles giving the historical background to each work and others by those directly concerned with modern production, indicating present day significance and how these 18th and 19th century works should be approached in the later 20th century. The volume is fully illustrated and contains thematic guides, bibliographies and discographies with much fascinating information about the works in question.
General note	The individual English National Opera guides were first published in 1980 as separate volumes.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographies and discographies.
ISBN	0714538051
ISBN	9780714538051

English National Opera guides. / edited by Nicholas John ; with a foreword by Lord Harewood.

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