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
Michael Langdon to his teacher's amazement. He excelled at the less academic school he attended. He disliked school and was pleased to leave. He sang in "The Midsummer Marriage", "Gloriana", "The Olympians", "Billy Budd", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Don Carlos", "Arabella", "Der Rosenkavalier", "Don Pasquale" and "The Abduction from the Seraglio", among others. He was principal bass at the Royal Opera House from 1951 and sang in most of the great opera houses of the world, most often in the role of Baron Ochs in "Der Rosenkavalier" during the 1960s and 1970s. His voice has been described as 'basso profundo'. He could