Massenet jules

027019 — Elibron Classics SCARCE FRENCH / RUSSIAN LANGUAGE EDITION. Very Good condition. Flat uncreased spine. Light cover wear. NO chips tears or fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Small stain smaller than a half-dollar coin in the margin only of a few pages at the end NO text is affected. A few page numbers in the table of contents are circled in pencil. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Werther Opera Vocal Score Text in French and Russian side-by side. No year of publication is indicated. Bound in the original white pictorial wraps stamped in black. Oversize Softcover. 9" wide by 11.75" tall. This large book may require extra postage for international shipments but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. "WERTHER received its first performance in February 1892. It was not until a revival by the Opéra-Comique in 1903 that the work became an established favourite…. Complete French recordings of … Werther conducted by Élie Cohen were issued in 1932 and 1933 and have been republished on CD…. The critic Alan Blyth comments that they embody the original intimate Opéra-Comique style of performing Massenet… In THE PENGUIN OPERA GUIDE 1993 Hugh Macdonald wrote that though Massenet's operas never equalled the grandeur of Berlioz's LES TROYENS the genius of Bizet's CARMEN or the profundity of Debussy's PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE from the 1860s until the years before the First World War the composer gave the French lyric stage a remarkable series of works two of which - MANON and WERTHER - are 'masterpieces that will always grace the repertoire'… Rodney Milnes in THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF OPERA 1992 agrees that Manon and Werther have a secure place in the international repertoire." -- Wikipedia. Reprint of the Moscow edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. ii 224pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Elibron Classics Hardcover