L'Africaine: Third Opera Festival, Music Hall (1883) Cincinnati (Ohio): Libretto, Programmes and Diagrams, Compiled from the Official Announcements (Original Opera Festival Program)

Cincinnati, OH: J. R. Hawley & Co.. L'Africaine: Third Opera Festival, Music Hall (1883) Cincinnati (Ohio): Libretto, Programmes and Diagrams, Compiled from the Official Announcements (Original Opera Festival Program). A left-stapled soft cover measuring 6-7/8" by nearly 10-1/2" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Eight quarter pages to the first several pages in the program list the opera performances - Verdi's La Traviata, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Belli's La Sonnambula, Rossini's William Tell, Rossini's Semiramide; Wagner's Flying Dutchman; Mozart's Don Giovanni; and Wagner's Lohengrin - for each of the eight days at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio (from Monday Evening, January 29th [1883] to Saturday Evening, February 3d [1883]) as well as the names of the Characters and Vocal Performers. The first several pages also contain charming, historical advertisements, including a full-page steel engraving of the Wm. G. Fischer & Co. Building ("Union Works: Stove Range & Furnace"); Diagram of the Parquette or Auditorium (at 211 Vine Street); separate biographies of Joseph R. Peebles' Sons' Life of Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Mozart, and Wagner; businesses offering tickets for general or reserved seating. The title page of the opera beginning on page 17 reads "L'Africaine: A Lyric Drama, In Five Acts As Represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Italian and English. The Words by Scribe" following with the Argument, Dramatic Personae, length and times of the performance ("assuming the performances commence at 8, carriages may be ordered for 11.30"), and then the opera itself in five acts (Italian and English). Condition: covers are detached but present and show light to moderate soil as well as periodic small edge and corner chips and short closed edge tears; the internal pages show a few small corner creases and two narrow edge chips (to blank margins only). Exceptionally rare. . Fair. Wraps. First Edition. 1883.