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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Billy Budd and other stories	Herman Melville	Contains: [Bartleby][1] The Encntadas or Enchanted Isles The Paradise of Bacelors The Tartarus of Maids the Lightning-Rod Man Benito Cereno The Piazza [Billy Budd, Foretopman][2] [1]:…	OL102707W
Manon Lescaut	Abbé Prévost	Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits …	OL1132652W
Obryv	Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov	"In The Precipice Goncharov combines various genres: novel about the artist, political novel, and romance. This work contrasts the then new ideas of philosophical positivism, utilitarianism and athei…	OL1139067W
Ancient Rome in early opera	Robert . Ketterer	"In this volume, Robert C. Ketterer tracks the changes as operas' Roman subjects crossed generations and national boundaries. He also pays close attention to the composers' individual approaches to d…	OL11903340W
Opera and ideas	Paul A. Robinson	In this thoughtful study, historian and opera lover Robinson relates music to the history of ideas by analyzing several major operas: The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Les Troyens, Don C…	OL13250465W
Madama Butterfly	Daniel S. Brink	Contains the complete libretto in Italian and English, with annotations in English, and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the pri…	OL13740683W
The romantic world of Puccini	Iris J. Arnesen	"Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, was also a literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. The author argues that the majority of Pucci…	OL13785547W
Selected Writings of Herman Melville	Herman Melville	Contains: [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Encantadas or enchanted isles -- Isles at large -- Two side to a tortoise -- Rock Rodondo --…	OL14953715W
Aïda	Leontyne Price	Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.	OL15852010W
Weill's musical theater	Stephen Hinton	In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinto…	OL16283677W
Opera	Matthew Boyden	Sketches of opera composers, opera synopsises, and CD reviews.	OL1640869W
The Victor book of the opera	Henry W. Simon	The historical background and act-by-act summaries of 120 operatic masterworks.	OL16500962W
Loris Graud Cellar Door An Opera In Almost One Act	Loris Graud	An opera in (almost) one act, "Cellar Door" features some ten characters on the fringes of a variety of practices, disciplines, and areas of knowledge. Together they conjure up the outlines of a uniq…	OL17487561W
Arias for Tenor	Robert L. Larsen	"It has been a pleasure to reflect on the enormous repertory that the world of opera affords, and to choose from it a group of important and representative arias for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, ba…	OL17846584W
Puccini without excuses	Berger, William	Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated o…	OL1883871W
The Mikado	Martha Mearns	A retelling of the opera about a tailor who became the lord high executioner and the son of the Mikado who became a wandering minstrel.	OL193765W
Opera	András Batta,Sigrid Neef	Darkness in the auditorium, the first quiet notes from the pit, the curtain slowly rises and reveals unfamiliar worlds. A succession of lyrical and tragic moments, glimpses into the depths of the hum…	OL19654039W
Fedora: dramma di V. Sardou, ridotto in tre atti per la scena lirica da ...	Umberto Giordano ,Arturo Colautti	Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL19807923W
Cinema's illusions, opera's allure	David P. Schroeder	"The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and o…	OL1983589W
In character	Martin, John F. (Photographer)	Features the work of John F. Martin, who for years set up a portable studio in the basement of the San Francisco Opera and photographed the players in costume and full makeup.	OL20003216W