The Musical Guide, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The Stories of the Operas are told here in the only way in which, surely, they should be told; yet strangely enough, the only way in which, so far as the Editor can find, they have never been told; and that is by telling the story as it is unfolded on the stage, not by acts and by scenes only, but by the entrances and exits and by the principal songs. The pronunciations of the names of the operas in different languages, and of the characters, have also ...