Don Carlos and Company

by Christopher Morgan (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.27

  Taking eight of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the repertoire as his starting point, the author discovers the real stories behind the opera librettos - often revealing them to be even more dramatic than their operatic counterparts. This book shows how fact and fiction overlap, and from what obscure sources a major work of imagination can spring. The eight operas covered are: Simon Boccanegra ; Il Trovatore ; Rigoletto ; Don Carlos ; Lucia di Lammermoor ; Un Ballo in Maschera ; La Traviata ; and La Boheme .