10 operatic masterpieces; 
designed by Merle Armitage. Text by Olin Downes, with piano arrangements by Leonard Marker. [With more than eighty decorative drawings by Alberta Sordini. Produced and edited under the direction of L. William Hansen; Robert Sour, editorial advisor] 
 - New York :  Scribner ,  [1952] 
 - 569 p.:  illus., music.;  32 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes critical commentary, story of each opera, and excerpts arr. for piano, with words of arias in original languages. 
<br/><br/>"Listing of LP recordings, with calibrations": p. 563-569. "BMI LP music selecter [sic]": inserted. 
<br/><br/>Marriage of Figaro.--Master-singers of Nuremberg.--Aida.--Carmen.--Tales of Hoffmann.--Bohême.-- Tosca.--Rosenkavalier.--Love of three oranges.--Wozzeck. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operas--Stories, plots, etc.<br/>Operas--Discography.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.08  / DOT 1952