First Nights at the Opera Opera Posters complete with red jacket

complete with red jacket

Jussi Björling

Maurice Sendak designed brilliant sets and costumes for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Christmas production of Nutcracker based on the magnificent pictures in this book

Dolora Zajick

First Nights at the Opera Opera Posters complete with red jacketIn First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas: Handels Giulio Cesare (London, 1724), Mozarts Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787), Meyerbeers Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836), Wagners Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1876), and Verdis Otello (Milan, 1887). What was it like to be