The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas
- ISBN-10
- 0393040518
- ISBN-13
- 9780393040517
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- John W. Freeman
Description
Offers profiles of modern and lesser known opera composers and includes plot summaries of their major works
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