First Intermissions

First Intermissions. (Commentaries from the Met Revised and Enlarged Edition). Limelight. Softcover. 270 pages. Limelight Editions #087910970X. Published by Limelight Editions.

For well over twenty years, M. Owen Lee has been offering intermission talks during the Saturday afternoon Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which now reach countries on six continents. In this book, Father Lee covers various operas of Mozart * Verdi * Wagner * Puccini * and Richard Strauss, as well as a selection of French operas, including Faust * Carmen * and Les Contes dHoffman. In all, his repertory contains 23 operatic masterworks, to all of which he brings insight, learning and the most infectious enthusiasm.