1st Edition

British Opera in America Children in the Wood, Music by Samuel Arnold, Libretto by Thomas Morton, American Premiere Volume I

Edited By Susan L. Porter Copyright 1994
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical... Read more

Introduction to the Series; About this Volume; Introduction to this Volume; Sources; Bibliography; Index of Musical Numbers; Children in the Wood; Frontispiece; Libretto; Musical score; Musical addenda: "When Nights Were Cold"; "The Jealous Don"; "When First I Slipp’d My Leading Strings"; "Mark My Alford"; Blue Beard: Libretto; Musical score

Biography

Susan L. Porter Ohio State University