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
Seraglio Seraglio A seraglio ( or ) or serail is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in an Ottoman household. The term "harem" is a generic term for domestic spaces reserved for women in a Muslim family, which can also refer to the women themselves. The Ottoman imperial harem was known in Ottoman Turkish as "Harem-i Hümâyûn". The etymology of this Italian word is unclear. The Italian Treccani dictionary gives two derivations: one from Turkish "saray", from Persian "sarai" (), meaning "palace", or the enclosed courts for the wives and concubines of the harem of a house or