The Complete Opera Book and Mozart's "Il Seraglio", occupying pp. 851–901. After 1929 it was enlarged to include Verdi's "Simone Boccanegra", Boito's "Nerone", Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", Puccini's "Turandot", Rossini's "La Cenerentola", Mozart's "Così fan tutte", Jaromir Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper" and Vaughan Williams's "Hugh the Drover" (pp. 901–930). The English 1935 imprint included Bonavia's notes on Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri", Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snegourochka" and two operas of Ildebrando Pizzetti: parts of the former supplement had by now been incorporated into the main text, and the overall page-count before index was now 945 pages. While no amount of enlargement could possibly have made the work literally
Marcella Sembrich Gye at Covent Garden and signed a contract there for five seasons. In June 1880 she created a sensation in her debut at Covent Garden as Lucia in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". She became a great favorite in the characters of Zerlina, "Don Giovanni"; Susanna, "The Marriage of Figaro"; Konstanze, "The Abduction from the Seraglio"; Lady Harriet/Martha, "Martha"; and, of course, Lucia. In 1883, Marcella Sembrich went to the United States to sing in the newly founded Metropolitan Opera company. She made her Met debut as Lucia in the company premiere of "Lucia di Lammermoor" on October 24, 1883. She