SAINT-SAËNS, Camille 1835-1921

Phryné. Opéra-Comique en Deux Actes. Poème de L. Augé de Lassus. .. Partition Chant et Piano, réduite par l'Auteur, avec un dessin de F. Marcotte. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: A. Durand et Fils [PN D. & F. 4642], 1893.

Octavo. Quarter contemporary red calf with textured red paper boards, titling and initials "A.G." gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. 1f. (title printed in black and red), 1f. (frontispiece drawing by F. Marcotte of the "Scène de l'apparition," from Act 2 of the opera), 1f. (named cast list), 1f. (table of contents), 145, [i] (blank) pp. Transfer. Text in French.

Publisher's monogrammatic handstamp to lower left corner of blank final page. Cast list with names of the singers for the first performance, including Sibyl Sanderson.

Binding slightly worn and rubbed; head of spine slightly chipped.

First Edition. Ratner II, p. 224.

Phryné, to a libretto by L. Augé de Lassus, was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 24 May 1893.

Item #26018

Price: $125.00  other currencies