Excerpt from Guide to the Opera: Containing the Plots and Incidents of All the Well-Known Operas Performed in England, With Short Sketches of the Lives of the Composers, Etc., Etc
It is hoped that the short sketches of the lives of the com posers, and the footnotes appended to these short analyses, may help towards an intelligent enjoyment of the operas, and may even prove of interest to the general reader.
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