THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUIDE

Officially prepared and approved by The Metropolitan Opera Guide, Inc.

Opera enthusiasts will find this book a treasure-trove of information on their favorite art and on the institution within which almost all operatic history in American has been made. It contains the stories of all the operas in the Metropolitan’s standard repertory, given in act-by-act and scene-by-scene detail.   A biographical sketch of each composer, with an evaluation of his work in its time, is another of the book’s many features. The motives and musical themes of the principal arias, as well as marginal commentaries on the various roles, are given, and the entire text is embellished with many decorative illustrations. Introductory contributions are written by Edward Johnson, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera House, and Mrs. August Belmont, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Thus The Metropolitan Opera Guide is the most authoritative and definite book in the field of American music-drama. Its publication as the forty-eighth title in the Modern Library Giant series adds confirmation to the statement made by The New York Times that this is “the greatest book bargain in all the world today.”