2 However, others found the “Old” Metropolitan Opera House’s intimate interior appealing. Cady, it was nicknamed “The Yellow Brick Brewery” for its industrial looking exterior. 1 Occupying the entire western side of the block between West 39 th Street and West 40 th Street, the “Old” Metropolitan Opera House opened on October 22, 1883. In all, 70 shareholders provided the $1.7 million required to buy the land and build the opera house at West 39 th Street and Broadway.
The Magic Flute, Die Zauberflöte, La Flûte Enchantée) makes access to the material even easier.In 1880, dissatisfied with the location and seating capacity of the 1854 Academy of Music opera house near Union Square, a group of wealthy businessmen opted to build their own. An additional index listing all the usual versions of a title (i.e. The operas are arranged alphabetically under the composer's name.
They are drawn not only from the literature in the three major operatic languages-Italian, German, and French-but from the Russian, English, Czech, Hungarian, and Spanish. The list, ranging from Argento to Weill, from Adriana Lecouvreur to Werther, is representative of opera composers and their works from sixteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century America. The operas included do not reflect an exclusively Metropolitan Opera House repertory, but are truly international. Norton, contains the plots of 150 of the world's most popular operas there are also short, informative biographies of each of the 72 composers represented, and historical background material pertinent to each work. The book, published jointly by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and W. For anyone who has tried to unscramble the plot of Mozart's The Magic Flute by skimming through an illegible synopsis in a rapidly darkening hall, this compact, well-written, well-designed collection of stories of the great operas will be a boon.
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