French Opera Libretti Volume I

FRENCH OPERA LIBRETTIVolume IBy Nico Castel This addition to Castel's monumental opera libretti series contains: Werther and Ch?rubin (Massenet); Carmen (Bizet); Samson et Dalila (Saint-Sa?ns); Lakm? (Delibes); Pell?as et M?lisande (Debussy); Don Carlos (Verdi)[French version]; Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach); with the IPA transcriptions; Word-for-Word translations; A guide to the I.P.A.; Notes on the French transcriptions; and a Foreword by Beverly Sills, who states: "My dear friend, Nico Castel, and I would often sing together in an opera, and each time I would marvel at his expertise in the language in which we were performing. Later, when I became the Director of the New York City Opera I would at times despair at the way young singers tend to sacrifice the value of the text for the sake of volume or pearl-shaped tones. I'm sure that I'm not the only one for whom fledgling dramatic Italian sopranos would audition with ïPooce, pooce' instead of ïPace, pace, mio Dio.' On more than