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The definitive
reference for diction, pronunciation and translation
for all of the major operas authored by the world's
leading authority on opera diction. |
| Nico Castel has undertaken a stupendous
task with his Operatic Libretti Series — a work that should
have been done years ago ... How much time these publications
could have saved me when studying a new opera! How fortunate
are the present day students to be able to refer to these
books, constantly improving their understanding of the
complete work.
— Dame Joan Sutherland
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These comprehensive works, utilizing the Leyerle
Three Line Phoentic Translation System, are currently available:
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The Complete Puccini Libretti**
Now is its 2nd printing
Volume One. 579
pages, contains La Boheme, Edgar, La Fanciulla del West,
Madama Butterly and Manon Lescaut. $55.00
Volume Two. 434 pages, contains La Rondine, Tosca,
Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni
Schicchi) and Le Villi. $50.00
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The Complete Verdi Libretti
Volume One. 438
pages, contains Aids, Alzira, Aroldo, Atilla, Un Ballo
in Maschera, La Battaglia di Legnano and Il Corsaro.
$60.00
Volume Two. 618 pages, contains Don Carlo, I Due
Foscari, Ernani, Falstaff, La Forza del Destino, Giovanna
d'Arco and Un Giorno di Regno. $65.00
Volume Three. 484 pages, contains I Lombardi,
Luisa Miller, Macbeth, I Masnadieri, Nabucco, Oberto Conte
di San Bonifaccio and Otello. $60.00
Volume Four. 523 pages, contains Rigoletto,
Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, La Traviata, Il Trovatore
and I Vespri Siciliani.
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The Libretti of Mozart's Completed Operas
Volume One contains
Bastien und Bastienne; La Clemenza di Tito; Cosi fan
Tutte; Don Giovanni; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,
La Finta Giardiniera and La Finta Semplice. $75.00
Volume Two contains Idomeneo, Lucio Silla, Mitridate,
Re di Ponto, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Re Pastore, Der Schauspieldirektor,
Zaide and Die Zauberfloete. $70.00
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French Opera Libretti. Volume I.
701 pages. Contains
Werther, Cherubin, Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Lakme, Pelleas
et Melisande, Don Carlos (French version), Les Contes
d'Hoffman. $75.00
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Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti. Volume
I.
570 pages, contains Il Barbiere di
Siviglia, Il Turco in Italia, Lucia di Lammermoor, L'Elisir
d'Amore, Lucrezia Borgia, Norma and I Capuleti e
i Montechhi. $65.00.
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French Opera Libretti, Volume. II
Faust, Romeo et Juliette, Manon, Mignon,
Hamlet, La Juive, Thaïs, Pêcheurs de
Perles -- 684 pages, $65.00.
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Italian Verismo Opera Libretti
La Gioconda, Mefistofele, Cavalleria Rusticana,
Pagliacci, L'Amico Fritz,
Fedora, Andrea Chénier, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Bohème
(Leoncavallo). 737
pages, $75.00.
- Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti, Volume II
La Cenerentola, L'Italiana in Algeri, Don Pasquale,
Anna Bolena, Maria
Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, La Sonnambula, I Puritani - 672
pages - $75.00
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German - Four Strauss Opera Libretti
Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos, approx.
500 pages - $65.
- Italian and French Belcanto Opera Libreti, Volume III.
French: La Fille du Régiment, Le Comte Ory, La Favorite,
Guillaume Tell.
Italian: Otello (Rossini), Il Viaggio a Reims, Semiramide,
Beatrice di Tenda
Approx. 700 pages - $75.- Available April, 2002.
Nico is currently working on the following upcoming volumes:
- German - Wagner's "Ring"
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung
Approx. 800 to 900 pages - approx. $100.-
Available approx. mid 2003.
- German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti.
Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Hänsel und Gretel, Fidelio,
Der Freischütz,
Fliegender Holländer, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser
Available sometime in 2003. Cost as yet undecided.
- French Opera Libretti, Volume III.
Louise, Le Prophète, Les Huguenots, Hérodiade,
Don Quixotte, Les Vêpres
Siciliennes (Verdi), Jérusalem (Verdi) Le Cid
Approx. 750 pages. Cost undecided.
Available sometime in 2004.
- German - Wagner Opera Libretti
Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal
Approx. 1000 pages + cost as yet undecided.
Available sometime in 2005.
- Viennese Operetta
- French Offenbach Operettas
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