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The confidence man : a comic fable : an opera in two parts with a prologue and an epilogue

Title: The confidence man : a comic fable : an opera in two parts with a prologue and an epilogue / libretto by Gene Rochberg, based on Herman Melville's The confidence-man : his masquerade ; music by George Rochberg.
Author: Rochberg, George
Publication: [1979?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	no. 141, box 2	Text	Supervised use	JPB 98-45 no. 141, box 2	Offsite
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Description

2 boxes; 39 x 26 x 13 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of George Rochberg, 1996.

Uniform Title

Confidence man. Libretto

Alternative Title

Confidence man.

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Genre/Form

Letters (correspondence)
Librettos.

Note

Includes typescripts (originals, photocopies and carbon copies) with and without holograph emendations in pencil, red pencil and ink ; and librettist's holographs (in pencil, red pencil and ink).
Accompanied by letters, 1978-1979, to William Smart from Arnold Broido and Gene Rochberg, other documents relating to the librettist's residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at SweetBriar, and letter from Gene Rochberg to Margaret Higgins, Santa Fe Opera, 1979 Aug. 29.

Call Number

JPB 98-45 no. 141

OCLC

NYPG98-B1198

Author

Rochberg, George.

Title

The confidence man : a comic fable : an opera in two parts with a prologue and an epilogue / libretto by Gene Rochberg, based on Herman Melville's The confidence-man : his masquerade ; music by George Rochberg.

Imprint

[1979?]

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Added Author

Rochberg, Gene.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Confidence-man.

Research Call Number

JPB 98-45 no. 141

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