• Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - front covers of both librettos
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - rear covers with Franco Colombo and G. Schirmer devices
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann title page
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann copyright page and introduction
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann story, cast of characters and synopsis of scenes
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann French and English text page 1
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann page 11
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Les Contes d'Hoffmann final pages with toning
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Madama Butterfly title page
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Madama Butterfly copyright page and introduction
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Madama Butterfly cast of characters
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Madama Butterfly Italian and English text page 8
  • Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2 (Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann), 1954-1973 wrappers - Madama Butterfly final page 26
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Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2: Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Metropolitan Opera Libretto Lot of 2: Madama Butterfly and Les Contes d'Hoffmann

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Book Notes: Madama Butterfly (Franco Colombo): tan wrappers lightly toned with a small white spot on the front cover; staples and binding sound; pages clean Les Contes d'Hoffmann (G. Schirmer): tan wrappers with light soiling and a few darker marks on the front cover; binding sound; text clean, with rectangular toning patches on the last pages (pp. 27 to end) from a previously laid-in item and a small brown spot at the lower corner of the title page

Author(s): Giacomo Puccini

Publication year: 1973

Binding: Paperback (stapled wrappers)

Language: Multilingual

Publisher: G. Schirmer

Condition: Very Good
ISBN:

Two Metropolitan Opera librettos in the original language with English translation side by side.

  • Madama Butterfly: opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa, based on the book by John L. Long and the drama by David Belasco; English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin. Italian and English. Includes an introduction on the opera's origins and its 1904 premiere, the story and the cast of characters. Franco Colombo, Inc. Collection of Opera Libretti, New York, NY 2418; copyright 1954 by G. Ricordi & Co., New York.
  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann: opera in three acts with prologue and epilogue by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on stories of E. T. A. Hoffmann; English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin; version with dialogues as performed by the Metropolitan Opera. French and English. Includes an essay on Offenbach and the opera, the story, the cast of characters and a synopsis of scenes. G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos, Ed. 2950; copyright 1959, 1973 by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Stapled wrappers, printed in the U.S.A. No ISBNs printed.

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