| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 434-440. |
| Contents |
Overture -- Beginners, please! -- The emperor of operetta -- Post-1870 Paris -- Vienna gold -- The school of Strauss II -- The Savoy tradition -- The Edwardesian era -- Fin de sié́cle -- The Merry Widow and her rivals -- Silver Vienna -- Continental varieties -- The West End -- American operetta -- Broadway -- Pasticcio and zarzuela, Italy and Russia. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Operetta -- History and criticism.
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Operetta. |
| ISBN |
0385132328 : $29.95 |
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