The Metropolitan Opera

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THE
METROPOLITAN OPERA
A complete and candid history of America's foremost lyric theater from its opening on October 22, 1883, to its last performance at Broadway and 39th Street on April 16, 1966, this is a revised and greatly expanded version of Mr. Kolodin's earlier hooks on the Metropolitan. Uniquely it supplies the entire story of the "old Metropolitan" and of the conception and creation of the "new Metropolitan" in Lincoln Center. Scrupulously researched and authenticated, the book is not an official history but a free report by a longtime critic and enthusiast who has been fascinated but not blinded or overwhelmed by what he has heard and seen in decades of operagoing. Completely reset and redesigned, with many new illustrations.
Illustrated with 183 photographs
Cover photograph by Joseph Costa, © 1959 by Syhania Electric Products, Inc.
Photographs on back of jacket by E. FredSher Jacket design by Muriel Nasser
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IRVING KOLODIN
was born in New York in 1908. He... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE
METROPOLITAN OPERA
A complete and candid history of America's foremost lyric theater from its opening on October 22, 1883, to its last performance at Broadway and 39th Street on April 16, 1966, this is a revised and greatly expanded version of Mr. Kolodin's earlier hooks on the Metropolitan. Uniquely it supplies the entire story of the "old Metropolitan" and of the conception and creation of the "new Metropolitan" in Lincoln Center. Scrupulously researched and authenticated, the book is not an official history but a free report by a longtime critic and enthusiast who has been fascinated but not blinded or overwhelmed by what he has heard and seen in decades of operagoing. Completely reset and redesigned, with many new illustrations.
Illustrated with 183 photographs
Cover photograph by Joseph Costa, © 1959 by Syhania Electric Products, Inc.
Photographs on back of jacket by E. FredSher Jacket design by Muriel Nasser
10/66
IRVING KOLODIN
was born in New York in 1908. He served on the music staff of the New York SUN from 1932 to 1949, being music editor and music critic from 1945 to 1949. Beginning in 1947, he was editor of the Recordings section of the Saturday review, of which he became music editor and critic in 1949; he is now one of its associate editors. In addition to earlier hooks on the Metropolitan, Mr. Kolodin has published
guide to recorded music and the musical
life and was coauthor of the Saturday review home book of recorded music and sound reproduction. In recent years he has made trips across the United States and to Europe, reporting on the course of current musical events. Mr. Kolodin is married and lives in New York.
ALFRED KNOPF, Vissza