Covent Garden

This short illustrated history traces the three theatres that have stood at Covent Garden and the opera and ballet performed in them. Rosenthal, long an observer of the house, follows the playhouse of the eighteenth century, the Victorian opera house, the fires that destroyed earlier buildings, and the Royal Opera House of the twentieth century. He records seasons, singers, and the habits of audiences and management rather than offering a technical study of production. The book is a compact institutional account of a London theatre, pairing a brief narrative with plates of the building and its performances.

Bound in red glazed paper printed in colour. Endleaves printed with a photograph in brown. Sixteen plates of colour reproductions of paintings and prints. No jacket or slipcase. Folio miniature -michael Joseph in association with the Folio Press.