Item #1045 [ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati deistviiakh [i.e. Romeo and Juliet. Opera in Five Acts] / Music by С. Gounod. W. Shakespeare.
[ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati deistviiakh [i.e. Romeo and Juliet. Opera in Five Acts] / Music by С. Gounod.

[ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati deistviiakh [i.e. Romeo and Juliet. Opera in Five Acts] / Music by С. Gounod.

St. Petersburg: Izdanie knigoprodavtsa M.O. Vol’fa, 1871. Item #1045

23 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In original printed covers. Good, tears of the spine, lacking upper outer corner of last page (text slightly affected) and the back cover, foxing and water stains occasionally.

First and lifetime edition of the libretto. Very rare. Italian and Russian text were published in parallel.
This opera was composed by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) in 1867. Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was adapted by poets Jules Barbier (1825-1901) and Michel Carré (1822-1872).
The work was printed among other performances of Italian opera staged in St. Petersburg. Apart from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, only ‘Faust’ by the collaboration of this trio succeeded in Russia.

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Price: $850.00

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