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1930144431930. Image 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches matted and framed to 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches overall. 1 vols. Fine condition. Image 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches matted and framed to 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches overall. 1 vols. An attractive image showing the great Wagnerian soprano in street clothes seated. unknown
2016F8724China Intercontinental Press. 2016. Paperback. Fine. A fine set in a fine slip case ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 0 pages . 7508533399 . China Intercontinental Press paperback
19492110502150414194Nagoya City Music Association 1949. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of copies: 1 copy Nagoya City Music Association paperback
1976051810Leningrad: Izd-Vo "Muzyka 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photographs Throughout. 158 Pp. Illustrated Boards. First Printing One Of 35000 Copies But My Search In Worldcat Shows Only One Institutional Holding In New Zealand. Near Fine No Marks. <br/> <br/> Izd-Vo "Muzyka hardcover
17903On letterhead of the Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden. 6 June 1866. 1p. landscape 12mo. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. Reads with manuscript text in square brackets: 'Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden. Madle Vestris Londres Le 6 Juin 1866. Recu de M. Gye la somme de £40 - - G Vestris B.V £40 : - : -''. On letterhead of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. 6 June 1866. unknown
1952List2814Homestead Pennsylvania 1952. 7 x 9 inch photograph. International News Photos and Tribune 4th Edition stamps verso with newspaper clipping. Marked “623†in pencil recto. Fine. Olive Moorefield b.1932 is an American opera singer and theater and film actress from Homestead Pennsylvania. As the newspaper clipping on the back of this photograph—from very early in Moorefield’s career—explains “She had earned $22 by baby sitting and decided to go to New York in hopes of auditioning for a play. She was given a try at a part in ‘My Darlin’ Aida’ . She made the gradeâ€. Following Aida she was brought to Vienna by the US Information Service to sing for servicemen and would go on to sing for the Vienna Volksoper Oper Frankfurt Schauspielhaus Zürich and others. She would also star in a number of German and Viennese films. Offered here is a photograph of Moorefield’s mother sitting on the porch of Moorefield’s childhood home. The clipping states that her mother “urged her to try for the part†of Lolly in Aida. unknown
190964260New York: Frderick A. Stokes 1909. 4to. xv 1 172 2 pp. Colour frontisp. 6 colour plates title pages & chapter initials all decorated in lavender-coloured Celtic knotwork illustrations and borders. Black publisher’s cloth blue Celtic design borders gilt lettering colour plate mounted front cover black topstain as issued minor shelfwear light rubbing slight bumping to couple corners still a VG copy w/ former ownership marking on ffep. First edition of this translation and recounting of the epic Wagnerian opera set against the backdrop of the Arthurian myth surrounding Tristan and Isolde including music scene movements and details on the development and early performances. Williams 1875-1932 began his career in New Jersey while running a large engineering business without formal instruction and began his illustration career with St. Nicholas Magazine and later Century. He illustrated works by Smollet Defoe and would later receive the Silver Medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Frderick A. Stokes, hardcover
1940296841940. Image size 175 x 135 mm. sheet size 279 x 216 mm. Signed in the stone "H. Rayner"; also signed in pencil below platemark at lower right. With "Ballet" and "copyright" in pencil to lower margin. Printed in olive green-toned ink on wove paper. <br /> <br /> Very slightly worn; minor foxing to blank margins. An Australian artist who studied and worked in Britain Rayner was a student of Walter Sickert at the Royal Academy and a friend of Augustus John. <br /> <br /> "Henry Rayner's single-minded devotion to the drypoint technique created what is almost certainly the largest body of drypoint work of any mid-20th century artist. Rayner typically took 15 or fewer impressions from each plate. It has taken nearly 70 years for Henry Rayner's drypoint work to begin attracting serious interest among collectors." Roger Stanton Hewitt Henry Rayner website. unknown
175929663Paris: Basan 1759. 385 x 260 mm. Printed on laid paper. <br /> <br /> The outdoor scene with trees and statuary depicts Caroline and Charlotte daughters of Frédéric Sluyter performing in a production of Pygmalion at the Schouwberg Theatre in Amsterdam. The dancer at left is on her right foot with arms outstretched costumed in a dress with a low rounded neckline pointed waistline and a wide panniered skirt; the dancer at right is on her left foot with arms outstretched wearing male attire including cocked hat frock coat with stiff flared skirt breeches and heeless shoes. <br /> <br /> Browned; small stain to lower right corner. Scarce. NYPL: b12155632. BM 1854 0614.342.<br /> <br /> Caroline and Charlotte Frédéric were part of a troupe of child performers active in Amsterdam in the 1760s. Basan unknown
198461448Portland & Gresham OR: Susan Higgins Ballet Instructor & Artistic Director Cascade Athletic Club; Oregon Concert Ballet Co. 1984. 4to. Approx. 250 pp sections separately paginated and unnumbered some numbered in ink several with duplicate numbering consisting of typescript musical score and illustrations many of the pages with extensive ink and/or pencil annotations some updates photocopies with additional revisions many pages with updates taped onto the musical score approx. 200 pp. preserved in archival mylar sleeves remainder 3-hole punched at gutter margin and inserted. Contemporary black vinyl 3-ring binder minor scuffing edgewear still VG exemplar. A wonderful original ballet director’s art direction notebook for the Peter Pan ballet staged in 1984 intended to offer young up-and-coming ballet students at the time to experience live performances and to unify Eastside/Westside Royal Academy of Dancing trained students. It would be 5 years before the Oregon Ballet and Pacific Ballet Theater would consolidate under the direction of James Canfield to form the Oregon Ballet Theatre. This ballet featured four acts divided into The Nursery Neverland Ship of the Pirates and Conclusion featuring solos by Wendy Tinker Bell Peter and Captain Hook over the length of the production. Dancers 4-5 years old were featured as the Neverland Fairies 5-7 years old with 2 years of training and pre-primary Royal Academy examinations behind them played Forest Fairies; Lost Children were 6-9 years old and had performed Barre and footwork; followed by the Pirates and soloists including Wendy Heather Miller Peter Pan Laura Spradlin Captain Hook Elizabeth Johnson and the mermaids drawn from the Lake Oswego School of Ballet under the directorship of Christine Donald. The original score by Anita Perry b. 1960 an up-and-coming Canadian composer out of British Columbia where she had studied piano with Lee Kum Sing and composition with Cortland Hultberg. In her early 20’s M. Perry had already won several composition awards was known for her original ballet works and wrote this score with orchestration for a variety of instruments “lending to the performance. . . a more closely approximated real environment experienced by professional dancers.†Peter Pan as a ballet required a fair amount of athleticism and as indicated here in Higgins’s artistic director’s notebook required extensive choreography changes scene adjustments and revisions by M. Perry. Higgins studied and danced at the British Royal Ballet later with Elvie DeMarko 1924-1989 of Ballet Russe and then with Robert Barnett of the Atlanta Ballet. No similar notebooks or programs survive for this 1984 ballet and there are no recordings or printed musical scores this cataloguer could uncover. Susan Higgins, Ballet Instructor & Artistic Director, Cascade Athletic Club; Oregon Concert Ballet Co., unknown
390891915. Signed in full in pencil just outside platemark at lower right. Also signed and dated in the plate "E. Oppler 15" at lower left inscribed in pencil "9-50" just outside platemark at lower left and "VII.II" at lower left corner with titling in pencil to lower margin. On ivory laid Bosquet watermarked paper. Impression size 180 x 270 mm. 7 x 9-1/2" with wide margins. <br /> <br /> A pre-performance or intermission scene depicting three tiers of an elaborate performance space with people both sitting and standing some in animated conversation with players in the orchestra pit before a closed curtain. Number 9 of an edition limited to 50 copies this impression an apparent second state of seven. <br /> <br /> Oppler is considered the premiere chronicler of ballet in Germany. "He spent his student years in Munich London and Holland before settling in Berlin in 1905. As a member of the Berliner Secession he developed into a sought-after portraitist and from 1912 through his drawings and graphic works to one of the perhaps to the most significant German artistic chroniclers of ballet history. Especially the Ballets Russes and their soloists owe to Oppler's enthusiasm an appreciation known until today only among ballet afficionados. Oppler is recognized as the inventor of an illuminated drawing pencil which enabled him to sketch from the audience during rehearsals and performances." Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. unknown
39101Quarto. Full mid-tan mottled calf with coat of arms gilt to both boards raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt marbled endpapers. With occasional decorative woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout.<br /> <br /> 1. DESTOUCHES Andre Cardinal 1672-1749<br /> Le Carnaval et La Folie Comedie-Ballet representée par l'Academie Royale de Musique pour le premiere fois. Le troisième Janvier 1704. Remise au théâtre Le seizième May 1719. Le treizième Juillet 1730. Le septième Août 1738. Et le Mardi onziéme Juin. 1748. Nouvelle Édition Prix XXX. Sols. Paris: Aux Depens de l'Academie. On trouvera les Livres de Paroles à la Salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie Royale de Musique rue S. Nicaise. . Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy. . De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Delormel & Fils 1748. 1f. recto title verso "Les Paroles de Monsieur de la Motte. La Musique de Monsieur Destouches." 1f. cast list 5-51 i approbation and imprint. With manuscript paraph to title. <br /> <br /> Named cast includes:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans dans les Choeurs" for the Côté du Roi performance Mlles. Dun Toulou Delorge Larcher Cazeau Rosalie Le Tourneur Duperey and Grimiaux and Messrs. Lefebre Le Page C Laubertie Fel Bourque Duchênet Rochette and Gratin; and for the Côté de la Reine performance Mlles. Cartou Masson Gondré Rôllet Delâtre Lablotiere Daliere Victoire Hery and Folliot and Messrs. S. Martin Le Mesle Bellanger Levasseur Belot Chapotin Favier and Le Roy<br /> - "Acteurs du Prologue" Mlle. Romainvile; Messrs. Person Le Page and de la Tour<br /> - Dancers Mlle. Puvigné in Hebé; Mlles. Lyonnois Courcelle and Thieri in Les Graces; Messrs. Devisse Caillez Laval Feuillade and Mion; Mlles. Dazenoncourt Briseval Minot and Puvigné in "Jeux & Plaisirs." <br /> <br /> A pupil of Campra Destouches achieved considerable success as a composer of stage music. His Isse was greatly admired by King Louis XIV. "Le carnaval et la folie is one of the first examples of a lyric comedy in France." James R. Anthony in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> 2. CAMPRA André 1660-1744 Monteclair Bourgeois and Rameau<br /> Fragmens de Differens Ballets Représentés par l'Academie Royale de Musique Le Mardi 10 Séptembre 1748. Prix XXX. Sols. Paris: Aux Depens de l'Academie. On trouvera les Livres de Paroles à la Salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie Royale de Musique rue S. Nicaise. . Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy. . De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Delormel & Fils 1748. In a prologue and 3 acts.<br /> <br /> - 1f. recto title verso "Les Paroles de M. Danchet. La Musique de M. Campra." 3-4 cast list 5-8 "Prologue des Amours de Venus"<br /> <br /> Named cast includes:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans dans les Choeurs" for the Côté du Roi performance Mlles. du Toulou Delorge Larcher Cazeau Rosalie Folliot Le Tourneur and Grimiau and Messieurs Lefebvre Le Page C. Laubertie Fel Bourque Duchênet Rochette and Gratin; and for the Côté de la Reine performance Mlles. Cartou Masson Gondré Rôllet Delâtre Lablotiere Daliere Chesdville Hery and Duperey and Messieurs S. Martin Le Mesle Bellanger Levasseur Belog Chapotin Favier and Le Roy <br /> - "Acteurs du Prologue" Mlle. Romainville Jacquet and Met<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Imblot Sauvage Parquet Amedée Carville Devaux Bellot L. and Bellot C; Mrs. Le Febvre Laurent Laval Caillé Feuillade and Bourgeois; Messieurs Le Lievre and Devisse. <br /> <br /> Campra was a leading figure in French theatrical and sacred music in the early 18th century.<br /> <br /> With:<br /> MONTECLAIR Michel Pignolet 1667-1737<br /> 1 Les Soirées de l'Eté tirées du ballet Des Festes de l'Eté: Le Paroles d de M. Pellegrin. La Musique de M. Monteclair. 2 cast list 3-22 pp. <br /> <br /> Named cast includes:<br /> - Actors Mlles. Coupée and Chevalier and Messieurs Person de la Tour and Le Page<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Camargo Lyonois Thierry Dazenoncourt Sauvage Beaufort and Briseval; Mrs. Dupré Dumay Matignon Hamoche and Caillé; Monsieurs Tessier and Levoir<br /> <br /> "Although not prolific Montéclair wrote in most of the genres cultivated during the early 18th century in France excepting only the keyboard. He was one of the most versatile of the generation between Lully's death 1687 and Rameau's advent as a stage composer 1733; composers of this 'préramiste' period are often described as 'imitators of Lully' but Montéclair and Campra are among those who influenced Rameau's dramatic music. In his stage works Montéclair was particularly sensitive to the dramatic function of orchestral colour. His operatic scores are much clearer than those of his contemporaries in giving directions for specific instruments like the off-stage horns 'played very softly to simulate the hunt in the distance' in the second entrée of Les festes de l'été Montéclair added that 'if no cors de chasse are available oboes and violins may play the following and remain in the orchestra'. In the same work a 'Prélude à trois basses' introduces the first scene of the third entrée where the main roles are sung by basses; the prelude to the second scene whose main roles are sung by sopranos is scored for violins and violas without continuo. The parts enter in reverse order and the melodic material is derived from the earlier prelude ex.1. Les festes de l'été and Jephté both contain an a cappella chorus and the former has a large-scale double chorus - an operatic counterpart to the choruses in Lalande's grands motets." James R. Anthony in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> With: <br /> BOURGEOIS Thomas Louis 1676-1750 or 1751<br /> 1 L'Estime tiré Des Amours Déguisés. Les Paroles de Monsieur Fuzelier. La Musique de Monsieur Bourgeois. 2 cast list 3-14 pp.<br /> <br /> Named cast includes:<br /> - Actors Mlles. Fel Jacquet and Gondré; Messieurs de Chassé Poirier and Person<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Dallemand Thieri St. Germain Minot Sauvage Briseval and Himblot; Mrs. Dupré Lany Devisse Lyonnois Dumat Matignon Hamoche Laval and Feuillade; Mr. Doumoulin.<br /> <br /> A French composer and singer best known for his contributions to the 18th century French cantata Bourgeois also wrote ballets and divertissements.<br /> <br /> With: <br /> RAMEAU Jean-Philippe 1683-1754<br /> 1 Pigmalion Acte de Ballet. La Musique de Monsieur Rameau 2 cast list 3-10 1f. approbation and privilege<br /> <br /> "Rameau was one of the greatest figures in French musical history a theorist of European stature and France's leading 18th-century composer. He made important contributions to the cantata the motet and more especially keyboard music and many of his dramatic compositions stand alongside those of Lully and Gluck as the pinnacles of pre-Revolutionary French opera." Graham Sadler and Thomas Christensen in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> 3. RAMEAU<br /> Les Festes de l'Himen et de L'Amour; ou Les Dieux d'Egypte Ballet Héroïque Donné à Versailles le quinze Mars 1747. Et Représenté pour la premiere fois par L'Academie Royale de Musique le Mardi 5 November 1748. Prix XXX. Sols. Paris: Aux Depens de l'Academie. On trouvera les Livres de Paroles à la Salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie Royale de Musique rue S. Nicaise. . Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy. . De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Delormel & Fils 1748. 1f. recto title verso blank 3 half-title with "La Poëme est de M. de Cahusac. La Musique de M. Rameau. La Danse de M. Laval Compositeur des Ballets du Roi." 4 cast list 5 synopsis 6 cast list 7-58 1f. privilege. With manuscript paraph to title. <br /> <br /> Named cast for the Prologue includes:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans dans les Choeurs" for the Côté du Roi performance Melles. Dun Tulou Delorge Larcher Cazeau Rosalie Le Tourneur Dupereyand Grimiaux and Messieurs Lefebvre Le Page C. Laubertie Fel Bourque Duchênet Rochette and Gratin; and for the Côte de la Reine performance Mlles. Cartou Masson Gondré Rôllet Delâtre Lablotiere Daliere Victoire Hery Folliot and Messieurs S. Martin Le Mesle Bellanger Levasseur Belot Chapotin Favier and Le Roy.<br /> - "Acteurs du Prologue" Mlles. Coupée and Romainveille; Mr. Poirier<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Carville Courcelle and St. Germain in Les Graces; Mlles. Puvignée Dazenoncourt Himblot and Briseval and Mrs. Laval Laurent le Lievre and Bourgeois in Jeux et Plaisirs; Mlles. Minot Beaufort Thierry and Sauvage in Vertus. <br /> <br /> Named cast for the Premiere Entrée includes: <br /> - "Acteurs Chantans" Mlles. Chevalier and Gondré; Monsieur Jeliote<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Puvignée Derseuille Chevrier Masson Hutte St- Germain Courcelle Thiery Minot Dallemand Belnot C. Parquet Devaus Amedée Camargo Dazenoncourt Beaufort Belnot L. and Belnot C.; Mrs. Dupré F. Barrois Hamoche Mion Matignon Dumay Laval Dupré Feuillade Caillé le Liévre and Laurent; Messieurs Lany and Dumoulin<br /> <br /> Named cast for the Seconde Entrée includes:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans" Mlle. Romainville; Messieurs le Page De la Tour and Albert<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Lyonnois Amedée Devaux Sauvage L. Belnot and C. Belnot; Mrs. Laval Matignon Dumay le Lievre Hamoche Feuillade Lyonnois Mion Laurent and Bourgeois; Messieurs Lyonnois and Dupré <br /> <br /> Named cast for the Troisieme Entrée includes:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans" Mlles. Fel Coupée and d'Aliére; Messieurs Jeliote Person Poirier and Lamarre<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Camargo Dallemand Puvignée Lyonois St. Germain Courcelles Thiery Puvignée Desnoncourt and Minot; Mrs. Lany Dumoulin Tessier Laval Hamoche Caillez Feuillade Dumay and Dupré; Monsieur Device<br /> <br /> First Edition. Sonneck p. 500 editions of 1765 and 1778 only. <br /> <br /> 4. RAMEAU<br /> Platée Ballet Bouffon representé par L'Academie Royale de Musique pour le Carnaval De mil sept cent quarente!neuf. Le Mardi quatre Fevrier de la même année. Prix XXX Sols. Paris: Aux Depens de l'Academie. On trouvera les Livres de Paroles à la Salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie Royale de Musique rue S. Nicaise. . Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy. . De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Delormel & Fils 1749. 1 title 2 "Les Paroles de Monsieur Autreau. La Musique de Monsieur Rameau." 3-4 cast list 5-55. 1f. approbation and privilege. With manuscript paraph to title.<br /> <br /> Named cast include:<br /> - "Acteurs Chantans dans les Choeurs" for the Côte du Roi performance Mlles. dun Tulou Delorge Larcher Cazeau Rosalie Le Tourneur Deperey and Grimiaux and Messieurs Lefebvre le Page C. Laubertie Fel Bourque Duchênet Rochette and Gratin; and for the Côté de la Reine performance Mlles. Cartou Masson Rôllet Lablotiere Daliere Victoire Hery Folliot s. Martin Le Mesle Bellanger Levasseur Bellot Chapotin Favier and Le Roy<br /> - "Acteurs du Prologue" Mlles. Cartou Chesdeville Coupée and Rozalie; Messrs. Poirier Person De Lamare<br /> - Dancers Mlles L. Belnot C. Belnot Desiré Lyonnois Briseval Dazenoncourt Imblot Parquet and Amedée; Mrs. Laval Caillé Monservin Le Lievre Laurent Hamoche Bourgeois and Milon; Monsieur Lany<br /> - "Acteurs du Ballet" Mlles. Jacquet Fel and Coupée; Messrs. De la Tour Le Page Person Poirier and DeLamare<br /> - Dancers Mlles. Lany Courcelle St-Germain Thiery Minot Beaufort Sauvage Dallemand Carville Devaux L. Belnot C. Belnot Lyonnois Dallemand Desiré Dazenoncourt and Briseval; Mrs. Dumay Dupré Matignon Feuillade le Lievre Laval Hamoche Bourgeois Laurent and Mion; Me. Dourdet; Messrs. Lyonois Dupré Monservain Tessier Dumoulin Devise and Lany<br /> <br /> First Edition of the second version.<br /> <br /> 5. SALOMON Joseph-François 1649-1732<br /> Medée et Jason Tragedie Representée par L'Academie Royale de Musique pour la premiere fpois. Le vingt-quatrième jour d'avril 1713. Reprise le premier de May 1727. Et le vingt-deux Novembre 1736. Remise au Théâtre le Jeudi 20 Février 1749. Prix XXX Sols. Paris: Aux Depens de l'Academie. On trouvera les Livres de Paroles à la Salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie Royale de Musique rue S. Nicaise. . Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy. . De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Delormel & Fils 1749. 1 title 2 "Les Paroles de Monsieur Pellegrein. La Musique de Monsieur Salomon." 3-4 cast list 5-64 i approbation and privilege. With manuscript paraph to title. <br /> <br /> Not in Sonneck.<br /> <br /> A French composer and organist "Salomon's operas Medée et Jason and Théonoé are in the tradition of Lully and Campra." Guy Bourligueux in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> Binding somewhat worn rubbed and bumped; minor loss to head and tail of spine; slightly shaken; hinges partially split. Minor internal wear; edges slightly browned; occasional foxing; two leaves loose. Very good crisp wide-margined copies overall. unknown
1976163670New York: Joffrey Ballet 1976. Vintage window card for the Joffrey Ballet Company at City Center New York circa 1976. <br /> <br /> Founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino the company initially consisted of six dancers performing original pieces created by Joffrey touring the US in a station wagon. The company found its first permanent residency in New York City in 1966 expanding to Los Angeles in 1982. The group gained recognition for its groundbreaking use of multimedia elements in performances and was one of the first dance companies to create a ballet set to rock music. It also served as the basis for Robert Altman's 2003 film "The Company" starring Malcolm McDowell and James Franco. The Joffrey Ballet moved from New York to Chicago in 1995 and continues to operate there today.<br /> <br /> 14 x 22 inches. Small splash and faint soil on the bottom left corner else about Near Fine with pinholes at each corner. Joffrey Ballet unknown
193425753New York/Philadelphia: Richard Davis 1934. First edition. Wraps. Good overall. Profusely illustrated souvenir of the Ballet Russes first American tour with b&w printed photographs of dancers including Massine Danilova Riabouchinska Toumanova Lichine and Baronova and scenery and costume printed color illustrations by Christian Berard Andre Derain Raoul Dufy and Joan Miro.<br /> <br /> Includes a printed insert "Synopsis of Ballets" with brief descriptions of the following ballets: La Concurrence Les Presage Le Beau Danube Scuola de Ballo Beach Le Lac des Cygnes Petrouchka Prince Igor and Le Tricorne. <br /> <br /> The loosely inserted program is entitled "The Philadelphia Forum presents for the First Time in Philadelphia Monte Carlo Ballet Russe Director General W. de Basil". It features Les Sylphides Le Tricorne and Le Beau Danube names the individual dancers for this performance and provides the story lines. Printed on rear wrapper: Artistic Director Rene Blum; Maitre de Ballet Leonide Massine; and Regisseur General Serge Grigorieff. 4 x 5 1/2" 8 pp staple bound; crudely opened o/w very good condition. Not found in World Cat.<br /> <br /> Large 4to 40 pp. Bound with blue cord ribbon. Original publisher's glossy gold paper wrappers title lettered in blue with Derain drawing of 2 dancers at front wrapper. Wrappers rubbed with a couple of creases; corners bumped; previous owner inscription in blue ink inside front wrapper; text and illustrations bright and clean. OCLC: 25907918 records 4 copies at the University Nebraska/Lincoln University Wisconsin/Madison California Institute of the Arts and the Metropolitan Museum. Richard Davis paperback
1982311BB1982. London Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co 1982. 18cm x 24.5cm. 192 unnumbered pages. Original Softcover. Good condition only with some stronger signs of wear. Includes the pricelist of estimates loosely inserted. Including Léon Bakst - The Yellow Sultana 1916 / Léon Bakst - Costume design for the Negro Dancer from Le Dieu Bleu / Costume and Decor Designs by Benois Gontcharoiva and Exter / Reference books from the Collection of Serge Leslie and Doris Niles etc. paperback
201352119London & Washington D.C.: Victoria & Albert Museum; National Gallery of Art 2013. Folio. 271 1 pp. Decorated title over 200 colour illustrations colour plates and black & white photo text illustrations. Black boards white raised & embossed lettering front cover spine w/ d.j. F/F copy. First edition stated of this lavishly illustrated work celebrating one of the most dazzling enterprises of the 20th century. The Ballets Russes revolutionized the art of ballet combining Russian and Western traditions with modernism. They thrilled and shocked audiences with brillian choreography music design and dances. Diaghliev brought together the vitality of contemporary art drawing upon the talents of Leon Bakst Natalia Goncharova Picasso Matisse and Giorgio de Chirico to create dynamic set designs and beautifully decorated costumes presenting on stage the artistic movements of Futurism Cubism and Surrealism. Victoria & Albert Museum; National Gallery of Art, hardcover
195441735Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1954. 8vo. 202 pp. Numerous illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettrng slght shlfwr w/ d.j. cover art by Ruhman price of $ 2.50 on frnt flp slght chppng hd of spine mnr creasng edgewear still NF/VG copy w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition early printing of this scarce classic children’s title on how a young girl becomes a ballerina. Bobbs-Merrill Co., hardcover
63-1888Moscow: Bolshoi Ballet 1973-76. 14 Black & White Photographs 9.5" x 7.5" & smaller sizes some oblong. Very Good. Notes on verso in Russian. From the Alma Law Collection. [Moscow: Bolshoi Ballet], 1973-76. unknown
1986223029Sichuan.: 四川美术出版社. Sichuan meishu chubanshe. 1986. Poster showing 56 captioned Chinese Sichuan Opera facepaint masks. Text in simplified Chinese characters 76 x 52.5cm occasional light creasing corner pinholes in very good and bright condition. In Chinese opera individual characters are distinguished by highly codified facial make-up often described as painted “masks” and in some regional traditions particularly Sichuan opera by the use of actual masks. These visual conventions function as an interpretive guide for audiences signalling a character’s identity personality and moral attributes. Musical style facial design and costume vary markedly between regional operatic forms including Beijing opera Sichuan opera Yue opera and Cantonese opera reflecting distinct local performance traditions and aesthetic systems. . 四川美术出版社. [Sichuan meishu chubanshe]. unknown
1419219549奉天. Mukden.: 滿鐵鐵道總局營業局旅客課. Mantetsutetsudōsōkyokueigyōkyokuryokakuka Hōten. Showa 14 1939. Black and white photographic illustrations 18.7 x 12.7cm 33pp original wrappers upper cover pictorial. Minor wear and light browning. Good copy. This charming tourist booklet with its delightful pictorial cover offers a comprehensive introduction to Peking Opera and Chinese vaudeville. It outlines the rules governing movement and costume in opera and describes the range of story types and productions a visitor might expect to see. The vaudeville section explains the various forms of oral entertainment performed for audiences together with the customs and rules observed in the theatre. Published in Mukden the booklet provides an accessible and informative overview of the region’s popular entertainments. . 滿鐵鐵道總局營業局旅客課. [Mantetsutetsudōsō unknown
1992167709Chicago: Club Stodola 1992. Vintage poster for a performance by bands 3 Penny Opera Righteous Podiatrist and Boney Pile circa 1980s at Chicago's Club Stodola. Stapled to the top left corner of the poster are four tickets for the event noting a date of June 19. Poster folded twice and addressed for mailing on the verso with a postmarked date of June 10 1992. <br /> <br /> Located on Chicago's north side Club Stodola was a neighborhood Polish bar-turned-music-club in the 1980s and 1990s that frequently hosted punk bands.<br /> <br /> 17 x 11 inches folded twice vertically. Tickets 5.25 x 2.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Club Stodola unknown
1880261261880. Very good overall. Eight lovely ballet/theatrical dance costumes illustrated in full color on one large sheet. These chromolithograph illustrations were likely for a book on dance. <br /> <br /> Printed in two rows of four figures. Each female figure features a different richly colored skirt with overlay off the shoulders blouse and hat ribbons and hair styles each with its own back drop. <br /> <br /> 17 x 13 3/4". A few small pinholes at margins which look to have been used for calibration of printing otherwise bright and clean. unknown
1927D12058Milan 1927. Ephemera. Very Good. Broadside advertisements for the performance of "Piccolo Harem" at Teatro Manzoni 4 large printed in color; 7 handwritten letters by Costa 5 of them signed with content related to the drama; 78-pp. typescript of the play in French "Petit Harem" signed by Costa; and 7 contemporary newspapers containing reviews. Condition is VG or better. The broadsides are particularly striking -- some flattened creases from folding but boldly designed and colors remain bright would display nicely. <br/><br/> unknown
194952974New York:: Metropolitan Opera House October 9 1949. original printed wrappers. . Some light creasing and use to the wrappers. 8vo. Boldly signed by Margot Fonteyn on the first text page of the program. Metropolitan Opera House, unknown
219368Tianjin.: 毓順成 芳記. Yushuncheng fangji. Early 20th Century. Four handbills showing popular images two 13.2 x 18.4 are images of characters from Peking Opera and two 12.2 x 16.5cm depict themes important in Chinese society at the time. Text in traditional Chinese characters. Light even browning tiny closed tears at margin of one sheet repaired with washi. Very good. Chinese opera characters in the style of traditional woodblock prints were popular in the late Qing dynasty and early Republican period. Handbills of characters from Beijing opera were sold as collectible items that also helped to familiarise people with the characters of different operas; their costumes make up weapons and names. In this case there are two characters from the opera 白水灘 on one handbill and three characters from the opera 落馬湖 on the other. <br> <br>Images with social themes also made popular handbills especially in places such as Tianjin where the influence of foreigners was pronounced. In 福壽財源 we see an immortal carrying a peach of longevity surrounded by images of fertility - a young woman and boys carry fruit and flowers as well as other items symbolic of wealth - a coin a vase gold ingots and so on probably issued for New Year. <br> <br>The final handbill of the four 娶大媳婦 tells the tale of a girl of eighteen married to a boy of seven. The Chinese custom of marrying a young boy to an older girl adopted into the family is thus open for discussion - everyone in the image clearly has a different opinion of the situation; from the young husband the older farmer in the background and the two men in long scholars robes to the modern young man in a western suit with leather shoes as well as the girl herself. The practice of adopting a girl to bring up as a future wife for a male child was made illegal in 1949. The text mentions some of the ways in which the girl would be expected to help in her adoptive family's home. . 毓順成 芳記. [Yushuncheng fangji] hardcover
