Drama. Music. Translated from the French by the editor. This is the third of a six volume series of translations of libretti by Donald Pippin. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Donald Pippin, the founder, director and one-man band behind Pocket Opera, has been delighting Bay Area audiences for 25 years with his lithe, elegant versions of the operatic repertoire." The libretti included in this volume are Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld, "La Via Parisienne," "The Bandits," "La Pericole," "The Cat That Become a Woman." Joshua Kosman, music critic for the Chronicle comments in his introduction to the book, that these libretti are "an eminently practical resource for impresarios and opera companies everywhere...An eloquent argument in support of the art of opera in translation... Read. Marvel. Enjoy." Also available from SPD are OPERA IN ENGLISH, VOLUME ONE: MOZART, VOLUME TWO: PUCCINI, and VOLUME FOUR: DONIZETTI.

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