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
Ileana Cotrubaș study at the "Școala Specială de Muzică" school for the musically gifted. Cotrubaș made her stage debut with the Bucharest Opera as Yniold in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" in 1964. She subsequently expanded her repertory to include roles such as Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", Gilda in "Rigoletto", and Blondchen in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and began appearing in productions throughout Europe. In 1965, Cotrubaș won an important competition in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands where she won first prize in opera, lieder, and oratorio. The following year, she won a radio-television competition in Munich. Those awards, together with her great