Henry Purcell's Operas: The Complete Texts

This volume is the first ever collection of Henry Purcell's opera texts. The much neglected dramatick operas' or semi-operas' are here edited in entirety, alongside Purcell's famous all-sung work, Dido and Aeneas , in both its 1689 form and its 1700 adaptation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . Each opera has a short introduction explaining the circumstances of the composition of the work and the sources of the opera text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198164459
• ISBN13: 9780198164456
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.3" x 6.1"