Excerpt from Stories From the Operas: With Short Biographies of the Composers Owing to the kind reception accorded to my first book of Stories from the Operas, I have been encouraged to prepare a second series Of Stories on Similar lines. The Stories now selected are taken from amongst the most popular operas frequently performed at Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres; the object being, as before, to present all the incidents of each Libretto in the clear, readable form of a short story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.