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1939ABE-1538494660313Royal Opera House Covent Garden 1939 EXTREMELY RARE! REX WHISTLER designed this glorious programme for the State Performance in Honour of The President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun at the Royal Opera House March 22 1939. WHISTLER's cover design is an elaborate affair; the embossed card covers are ingeniously cut away in curves. It is fabulously decorated by Rex Whistler on the front and back. A gold cord with tassels forms the binding round the twelve folded pages. Dancers included Margot Fonteyn Robert Helpmann William Chappell Frank Staff and Frederick Ashton. Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This is a great collectable example of ephemera in its own right but it is of especial value for admirers of Rex Whistler. Soft cover. Fine. Royal Opera House Covent Garden paperback
1949293881949. Good overall. An impressive collection of post W.W.II German opera stars dancers & directors and the stunning sets from the Hamburg Opera Ensemble. The 1st page is a dedication of farewell to Edward Groth US Consul General dated 24th May 1949. Groth had a long career in the Foreign Service including Consul in Afghanistan and India. <br /> <br /> Photographs of vocalists dancers directors - many signed - include: Günther Rennert staging director Arthur Grüber Günter Hertel Martina Wulf Theo Herrmann Ilse Koegel Helene Werth Lore Hoffman Hedy Gura Sigmund Roth Peter Markworth Hermann Mendt Nikola Eva Poser Rudolf Zerber Adolph Meyer-Bremen Johannes Drath Elfriede Wasserthal Richard Holm Irma Handler Cornelia Händel Elisabeth de Freitas and Danelies Rothenberger Otti Tenzel Bico von Larsky and several others signed and unsigned but unidentified. = signed. <br /> <br /> There are 20 programs for operas performed between April 1946 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail to April 1949 Raskolnikoff. Opera programs include: Tosca La Traviata Peter Grimes Othello Carmen Barber of Seville La Boheme Rigoletto and many others.<br /> <br /> Many of the performers were known through Europe. The portfolio starts with photo portraits which someone has annotated with sticky notes then includes many 1 sheet programs laid down and superb photographs of elegant sets for the varying operas. <br /> <br /> Fabric covered card covers cream cloth no title 38pp stiff card each page with 1 2 3 or 4 b&w photos later pages with programs from various operas dating 1946-1949. 38 portraits many silvertone 53 set photographs 20 programs for a total of 111 pieces. Photos varying in size 24 4 1/2 x 3.1/2" 42 6 329387/8 x 4 ¼" 20 5 ½ x 3 3/8" 4 9 3/8 x 7 1/8" and 20 programs all laid down on heavy card stock. Covers marked and dusty internally clean.<br /> <br /> Considering the Opera House was almost completely destroyed during the war this is a remarkable record of the Hamburg Opera and their artists. unknown
9791280717443<p>Maria Callas 100 Vissi d'Amore</p><p>The art of Maria Callas the soprano that changed the history of the Opera before and after.</p><p>The main protagonists and historians from the Opera sphere narrate Callas's vocal abilities and her performing charisma none other than the 'Divina'. With her repertoire and her heroines she was able to create a definitive myth of a unique way of interpreting the roles.</p><p>Exclusive images published for the first time from the Ragni-Cuoco collection and from the personal Archives of the Authors that narrate the most significant moments regarding the career of the Artist and the Woman herself.</p><p><strong>Limited edition hand numbered 777 exemplars</strong></p> SCRIPTA MANEANT hardcover
30832Executed in ink pencil gouache and silver paint on wove paper. Unsigned but with monogrammatic handstamp to lower left corner. With annotations in ink in Russian relative to various parts of the costume. 13.125" x 8.75" 332 x 222 mm.<br /> <br /> Slightly worn and soiled; some edge tears and repairs; upper right corner with erasure resulting in minor paper loss. Korovine designed costumes for productions of Russian operas including Borodin's Prince Igor Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and Le Coq d'Or.<br /> <br /> "Konstantine Korovine is one of the most famous of Russia's twentieth-century stage designers . He made his debut as a theatrical painter in 1885 when he executed the sets and costumes for the production of Snegurochka at Savva Mamontov's Private Opera after Vasnetsov's designs and thereafter he emerged rapidly as an independent stage designer - decorating according to one souce 80 operas 37 ballets and 17 dramas during his lifetime. Korovine brought to the Russian stage a vibrancy and richness that was lacking in the traditional Imperial theaters . He felt more at ease when called upon to design operas and ballets treating of Russian history and legend such as Prince Igor Sadko and The Golden Cockerel and he designed sets and costumes for such spectacles at home and abroad." Bowlt: Russian Stage Design Scenic Innovation 1900-1930 from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky pp. 175-176. Provenance: MacDougall Arts Ltd. London auction June 9 2011 lot 413 catalogue p. 17. unknown
188019742<p><strong>Superb huge lithographed poster for a ball at the Opéra Garnier by painter and poster artist Edouard Charles Lucas 1866-1925 aka Charle Lucas.</strong></p> Impr. Chardin 17 passage Daudin
1929AG20057<p><br /></p><p><b>SELECTIONS FROM REPERTOIRE OF OPERATIC SONGS AND TERPSICHOREAN MELODIES OF MEI LAN-FANG - by Professor Liu T</b><b>'</b><b>ien. Hua </b><b>æ¢…å…°èŠ³æŒæ›²è°±</b></p><p>Published in 1929 specially edited and printed for Mei Lan-Fang's performance in the United States. Mei Lan-Fang was invited by America in the winter of 1929 to help the people better understand Chinese Opera the master of Chinese songs Liu Tianhua produced two volumes of books one in Chinese 126pp. and the other in English 118pp. which includes 18 Kunqu Opera with music script and score. Signed and stamped by the Author on the English version 1050 copies printed and only 50 copies were signed this is No. 43 on Chinese art paper 4to matching red silk sewn thread binding with printed gold paper labels very fine condition. </p><p><br /></p><p>本套书å°åˆ·äºŽ1929年,共分为2册,精装,æ¤ä¹¦ä¸ºæ¢…兰芳赴美演出特制,共1050部,其ä¸çš„50部为æˆåŒ–宣纸å°åˆ¶ï¼Œåˆ—有编å·ï¼Œç¬¬ä¸€å·ä»·æ ¼äº”百美元,二至五åå·ä¸€ç™¾ç¾Žå…ƒï¼Œæ¤å¥—为50部ä¸çš„第43å·ï¼Œæœ‰åˆ˜å¤©åŽäº²å°å¹¶è‹±æ–‡ç¾å。两套书分别为ä¸è‹±æ–‡ç‰ˆï¼Œå…±æ”¶å½•了18æ¡æ˜†æ›²çš„å”±è¯ã€å”±è…”å·¥å°ºè°±å’Œäº”çº¿è°±ï¼ŒåŽ†ç»æ•°æœˆå®Œæˆ å“相如新,ä¿å˜å¦‚æ¤å®Œå¥½çš„éžå¸¸å°‘è§ã€‚</p> paperback
AQ25079vs.: vs. c. 1820s-1930s 12mo 8vo and quarto. The majority preserved within original publisher's wrappers. An extensive archive of theatrical publications and ephemera emanating from the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle County Dublin seat of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family comprised of theatre programmes and libretti representing productions spanning from the late 1820s up to the 1930s both domestic and Continental in origin. The 94 individual publications comprehend: Eight playscripts and libretti printed in Paris between including an 1828 edition of Théaulon and Choquart's comic vaudeville Monsieur Jovial ou l'huissier-chansonnier 1827 and an 1882 issue of Charles Gounod's five-act opera Faust set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite. 15 Italian productions variously printed at Rome Milan Florence and Naples in the latter half of the nineteenth century including an 1848 Neapolitan edition of Verdi's four-act opera Nabucodonosor composed to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera first performed at La Scala in Milan 9th March 1842; and a programme to accompany the first performance of Verdi's Attila at La Fenice in Venice 17th March 1846. An Italian language edition printed at Barcelona in 1845 of Jacopo Ferretti's libretto Eran due or son tre 1834. 70 theatre programmes operas and Italian-language libretti printed in London spanning the century between the 1830s and 1930s including: 15 issued in the 1870s as a part of 'Davidson's Musical Opera-Books' series published in conjunction with performances at 'London's Italian Opera Houses' of productions of inter alia Rossini's The Barber of Seville Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute each with a parallel English translation and 'the music of the principal airs'. The first appearance in print of the libretti for five Gilbert and Sullivan productions: Patience 1881 Princess Ida 1884 The Mikado 1885 The Yeomen of the Guard 1888 and Utopia 1893. A magazine-programme for a run of performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1926 of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up 1904 - a production with which Barrie was directly involved - with Dorothy Dickson in the lead role. A run of 12 programmes for the 1925/26 1926/27 seasons at the The Old Vic including 11 productions of Shakespeare's plays all notably featuring leading Shakespearean actor Baliol Holloway d. 1967. Notable members of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family included Thomas Gaisford 1789-1855 English classical scholar sometime curator of the Bodliean Library Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Gaisford’s eldest son Thomas Gaisford of Offington Sussex 1816-1898 British Army officer married in 1859 as his second of three wives Lady Emily St Lawrence d. 1868 eldest daughter of the third Earl of Howth. Their eldest surviving son Royal Navy officer Julian Charles Gaisford-St Lawrence 1862-1932 succeeded in 1909 his uncle the fourth and last Earl of Howth and came to reside at Howth Castle in Co. Dublin. A rare opportunity to acquire an ephemeral archive which not only exemplifies the theatrical passions of a single family across least three generations but documents the evolution of nineteenth century stage production charts the popular progress of Italian-language libretti in both Britain and on the Continent and exhibits the situation of English theatre prior to the post-war dominance of television and film. . [vs.], [c. 1820s-1930s] unknown
1491915<p>Terviso or Venice: Michael Manzolus 1491. First Edition with the commentary of Acron and Pomponius Porphyrio. Bound in modern marbled gilt calf. A very large and clean copy with marginal indexing on a few signatures in red others in brown ink. A very Large copy of a very very rare edition of Horace https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00451000 GW 13457; Goff H451; BMC V 315 IB. 21815; Bod-inc H-203; CIBN H-275. Located copies:The Walters Art Museum Bancroft Library Yale Free Library of Philadelphia Princeton Univ. Brown University Pauline Fore Moffitt Library University of California General Library. The unique charm of Horace's lyric poetry arises from his combination of the metre and style of the distant past—the world of the Archaic Greek lyric poets—with descriptions of his personal experience and the important moments of Roman life. He creates an intermediate space between the real world and the world of his imagination populated with fauns nymphs and other divinities.<br />He denounces corrupt morals praises the integrity of the people of Italy and shows a ruler who carries on his shoulders the burden of power. Other Augustan themes that appear in Horace's lyric verse include the idea of the universal character and eternity of Roman political dominion and the affirmation of the continuity of the republican tradition with the Augustan principate. At some stage Augustus offered Horace the post of his private secretary but the poet declined on the plea of ill health. Not withstanding Augustus did not resent his refusal and indeed their relationship became closer.<br />"Horace's success as a poet can be measured partly by how difficult he is to imitate and translate and by how many admirers have sought to do both. Readers in the Middle Ages looked to Horace as a moralist and as a literary critic and appreciated the Satires and Epistles more than the more difficult Odes. The enthusiasm of the Italian Renaissance poets Petrarch 14th century Landinio and Politian late 15th century for the Odes encouraged the popularity of Horace's lyric. Horace was one of Montaigne's 16th century favorite poets. The themes and poetics of both the lyrics and the satires greatly influenced Ben Jonson late 16th early 17th century Robert Herrick Andrew Marvell Milton and Dryden 17th century. The Odescontinued to be springboards for much of both public and private 17th-century English lyrics. Pope was the leading Horatian poet writing in English during the 18th century the Age of Augustanism especially imitating Horace's hexameter poetry while Alfred Lord Tennyson Matthew Arnold Byron and Rudyard Kipling were among Horace's enthusiasts in the 19th century. Horace continued to inspire modern poets among them Ezra Pound. <br /><br />While the different genres of his work have specific qualities they all share in being Horatian a quality that many have tried to define. In Nietzsche's view Horace's peerless artistry separates him from all other poets. Compared to Horace's Odes "All the rest of poetry becomes in contrast something too popular—a mere garrulity of feelings" "What I owe to the ancients" Twilight of the Idols 1 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/horace . Folio 30 x 20cm Signatures: A8B10C8D4E8F-G6a–q8r6. 184 leaves First Edition of Horace with both of his ancient commentators Acron and Porphyrio. Bound in modern marbled gilt calf. A very large and clean copy with marginal indexing on a few signatures in red others in brown ink.<br /><br />The history of the printing of editions of Horace and his commentators.<br /><br />First printed in Venice about 1471-2 then in Milan about 1475 14761477 Venice again 1478 &1479. The next edition was Leipzig 1492 All of these editions are without commentary. Acron's commentary was Published with out the Opera in Milan in 1479. At Florence in 1482 there is an edition of the Opera with the Landinus commentary then again in Venice 1483-86. The Edition offered here is the FIRST to have the commentary of Helenius Acron and Pomponius Porphyrion who are both said to have flourished in the third century these commentaries are revised by Raphael Rgius ƒl. 1480-1500 and Ludovicus de Strazarolis which make up the first 50 pages of this book.</p> Michael Manzolus