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Safe within their cocoons, butterflies only become vulnerable when they emerge to enchant the world with their beauty. Madame Butterfly has been breaking hearts for over a century with its tragic tale of an innocent Japanese girl who abandons her faith and her family to marry an American naval lieutenant. Giacomo Puccini created a dozen operas, many of them rooted in his fascination with exotic lands and foreign cultures. Inspired by a London performance of a one-act play by American playwright David Belasco, the composer developed an emotionally charged musical score to accompany this tale of devotion, tradition and sacrifice.

in Full Score-Full score edition. Includes full spoken text. Dover reproduction of Peters Edition.

A pair of men take an oath of eternal friendship but their vow is threatened by their attraction to the same woman. The object of their rivalry faces her own dilemma torn between worldly passion and her calling as a priestess.Their romantic triangle forms the heart of this 1863 opera Les Pêcheurs De Perles (The Pearl Fishers) in which the composer of Carmen the world's most popular opera made his first mark.Set in ancientCeylon this enchanting tale of friendship love and betrayal has been performed in Opera houses around the world. The famous Baritone/Tenor duet in the second act is among the most recorded of Opera highlights and a copy of thefull score is essential for conductors as well as for students of composition and orchestration. This large-format version of Bizet's three-act Opera offers musicians an affordable alternative to high-priced hard-to-findeditions.

in Full Score-With this great early opera Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer. Reproduced directly from the limited 1896 Weingartner edition that corrected numerous errors and incorporated Wagner's revisions. In addition the text and stage directions appear in English German and Italian.Reprint of the Weingartner 1896 edition.

Description The tragic tale of brothers who are in love with the same mysterious woman, Debussy's only opera is a perfect marriage of music and verse. The culmination of an eight-year effort on the part of the composer, the five-act lyric drama premiered in 1902. This volume, reprinted from the E. Fromont 1904 edition, reproduces the full orchestral-vocal score in a clear, modern engraving.

Description Superbly produced full score edition of one of the most commonly produced works on the operatic stage today. Peters edition.

Description An unabridged republication of the work originally published by G. Schirmer, New York in 1900. Italian and English text provided.

Description With his fairy-tale fantasy Hansel And Gretel , Humperdinck combined the simplicity of German folksong with the sophistication of Wagnerian operatic technique to create a work that has been a favourite with young and old alike since its first performance in 1893. This vocal score features a piano reduction of the orchestral score, and an English translation of the libretto.