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Book/Printed Material Offenbach's opera La belle Helene : containing the French text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs

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Title

  • Offenbach's opera La belle Helene : containing the French text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs

Names

  • Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. cmp
  • Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908, supposed librettist. lbt
  • Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897, supposed librettist. lbt

Created / Published

  • Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street ; New York : C.H. Ditson & Co., [c1868?]

Headings

  • -  Operas--Librettos
  • -  Paris
  • -  Menelaus
  • -  Agamemnon
  • -  Calchas
  • -  Achilles
  • -  Ajax the First
  • -  Ajax the Second
  • -  Orestes
  • -  Helene
  • -  Bacchis
  • -  Leoena
  • -  Parthenis
  • -  Philocomes
  • -  Euthecles

Notes

  • -  U.S. RISM Libretto Project.
  • -  Libretto in French and English in parallel columns; series title on front cover; advertisements--front cover and verso, p. [1] at end and back covers; copyright--verso of title page; synopsis--p. 1; "J.B. Kidder's Music Typography"--p. 1.
  • -  Libretto by Meilhac and Halévy--New Grove.
  • -  Performers' names not given.

Medium

  • [2], 37, [1] p. : music ; 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML48 [S7201]
  • Microfilm Music 1854, reel 149. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [197-]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010657689

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Offenbach, Jacques, . Cmp, Ludovic Halévy, and Henri Meilhac. Offenbach's opera La belle Helene: containing the French text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs. [Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street ; New York: C.H. Ditson & Co., ?, 1868] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010657689/.

APA citation style:

Offenbach, J., Halévy, L. & Meilhac, H. (1868) Offenbach's opera La belle Helene: containing the French text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs. [Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street ; New York: C.H. Ditson & Co., ?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010657689/.

MLA citation style:

Offenbach, Jacques, . Cmp, Ludovic Halévy, and Henri Meilhac. Offenbach's opera La belle Helene: containing the French text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs. [Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street ; New York: C.H. Ditson & Co., ?, 1868] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010657689/>.