The complete opera book, the stories of the operas, together with 400 of the leading airs and motives in musical notation, by Gustav Kobbé. Illustrated with one hundred portraits in costume, and scenes from opera (Still Image)

The complete opera book, the stories of the operas, together with 400 of the leading airs and motives in musical notation, by Gustav Kobbé. Illustrated with one hundred portraits in costume, and scenes from opera

Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918

xix, 891 p. front., illus. (music) plates. 21 cm

Gustav Kobbé (1857 - 1918) was an American music critic and author, best known for his guide to the operas, The Complete Opera Book, first published (posthumously) in the United States in 1919 and the United Kingdom in 1922.
He was on the point of completing this book when he died. Various additions were made to it before publication, and the work in its original form was edited by Katharine Wright, who at the same time included some additional operas in sections that bear her initials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kobb%C3%A9

The frontispiece includes an image of Maria Jaritza (1887 – 1982)  a celebrated Czech soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1935) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921-1932 and 1951). Her sensational rise to fame and spectacular beauty and personality earned her the nickname the Moravian Thunderbolt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jeritza

Features: Signed by Deems Taylor ,Joseph Deems Taylor (1885 –1966), an American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deems_Taylor

Operas -- Stories, plots, etc

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MT95 .K52 1922

New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons [1922]

Link to Primo record