NEW POPULAR EDITION, WITH APPENDIX
Containing tables, etc., of the Opera Season 1908-11.
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CHAPTERS OF OPERA
Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the Lyric Drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time.
By Henry Edward Krehbiel, musical critic of the New York Tribune, author of “Music and Manners in the Classical Period,” “Studies in the Wagnerian Drama,” “How to Listen to Music,” etc. With over 70 portraits and pictures of Opera Houses. 450 pp. 12mo. $2.50 net; by mail, $2.68. Illustrated circular on application.
This is perhaps Mr. Krehbiel’s most important book. The first seven chapters deal with the earliest operatic performances in New York. Then follows a brilliant account of the first quarter-century of the Metropolitan, 1883-1908. He tells how Abbey’s first disastrous Italian season was followed by seven seasons of German Opera under Leopold Damrosch and Stanton, how this was temporarily eclipsed by French and Italian, and then returned to dwell with them in harmony, thanks to Walter Damrosch’s brilliant crusade,—also of the burning of the opera house, the vicissitudes of the American Opera Company, the coming and passing of Grau and Conried, and finally the opening of Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House and the first two seasons therein, 1906-08.
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“The illustrations are a true embellishment ... Mr. Krehbiel’s style was never more charming. It is a delight.”—Philip Hale in Boston Herald.
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