The Complete Opera Book / The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

Transcriber's Notes
The Complete Opera Book has been an important opera reference work since its first publication in 1919. It has been revised and updated a number of times, most famously by George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, and most recently in 1997.
By Gustav Kobbé
All-of-a-Sudden Carmen The Complete Opera Book

Copyright photo by Mishkin
Mary Garden as Sapho
Author of “Wagner’s Music-Dramas Analysed,” “All-of-a-Sudden Carmen,” etc.
Illustrated with One Hundred Portraits in Costume and Scenes from Opera
G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1919
Copyright, 1919 BY GUSTAV KOBBÉ
The Knickerbocker Press, New York