The masterpieces of the world opera

For experts and fans of the opera, this book is a real literary monument and art history is a rarity. Its foundation is the legendary "satellite of the music lover", created by a major public figure, the famous theater and philanthropist David Margolin in 1908. However, the book has not lost relevance today, since most of the great operas were written before the beginning of the twentieth century. And for a novice theater, this book is the best introduction to the huge world of opera art: in addition to the libretto of more than 60 great operas, this included information about their first productions on the scenes of Western and Russian theaters indicating the vocal composition and actors, quotes from arias and brief critical -Biographic notes about composers.

The book was a real decoration of the decorations and costumes, portraits of composers and illustrations for scenes from operas, created by outstanding Russian and foreign artists, including: I. Bilibin, A. Golovin, in Vasnetsov, I. Repin, E. Ponomarev, A. Rekham, B. Show, E. Bayar, I. Lekont and many other masters of the XVIII-XX centuries.