The Victor Book of the Opera, Thirteenth Newly Revised Edition is edited by Henry V. Simon and is a 475-page hardcover published in 1976 by Simon and Schuster, New York.  The dust jacket shows surface rubbing, shelf wear, and is price-clipped.  Inside, the book is in very good condition, with clean unmarked pages and tight binding.

Book Summary

For more than half a century, The Victor Book of the Opera has been the most authoritative and comprehensive single-volume guide to the great operas of the world.  This new, larger, edition features an outline history of opera and detailed act-by-act plot summaries and histories of 120 operas, both the favorites from the standard repertoire and many others less heard.  

Twenty-nine operas, old and new, are included for the first time in this edition to reflect changing tastes of opera audiences.  Among the works of older composers now included are masterpieces of Monteverdi and Handel as well as recently revived works of Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Janacek, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, and Bela Bartok.  Among other composers now included are Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Alberto Ginastera, Douglas Moore, and Gian Carlo Menotti.  The period covered extends from 1607-1968.

ISBN:  0-671-20054-2