Opera People

112pp, richly illustrated with colour photography.  Red cloth boards with gilt titles.  4to.  Cloth very slightly rubbed t corner and spine ends.  Upper text block edge dust dulled.  A hint of toning to upper page margins, previously owner’s name flamboyantly but neatly on the front free endpaper else internally neat. clean and tight. In its original glossy. illustrated dust wrapper, heavily shelf worn, a little rubbed and bumped on edges, a couple of scrape marks on verso.  

A series of illustrated pen portraits of the of the opera greats – signers and conductors – of the 20th century including Joan Sutherland, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Georg Solti, Kiri Te Kanawa.