{"product_id":"later-operetta-2","title":"Later Operetta 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most successful American-born composer of operetta at the end of the nineteenth century was Reginald de Koven. The work reprinted in this volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Highwayman, \u003c\/i\u003eis arguably his best work, although he is better known for the earlier \u003ci\u003eRobin Hoodwixh \u003c\/i\u003eits evergreen wedding ballad \"Oh Promise Me.\" (\u003ci\u003eRobin Hood \u003c\/i\u003eis available as a reprint in the 1990 volume \u003ci\u003eAmerican Opera and Music for the Stage, \u003c\/i\u003ein the G.K. Hall series Three Centuries of American Music.) The editor of this volume, Orly Leah Krasner, is a leading scholar of de Koven’s music. She teaches at the City University of New York, and her Ph.D. dissertation, \"Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American Comic Opera at the Turn of the Century,\" is also from that university. Her introduction places the work in the tenor of contemporary critical reaction, and lists the sources available for further study. \u003ci\u003eThe Highwayman \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the few complete operettas of its era for which we are fortunate enough to have original performing materials in the composer’s own hand. As the penultimate volume (number 15) in this series, de Koven’s work of 1897 contrasts with two works of the previous year, Walter Damrosch’s opera \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter \u003c\/i\u003e(volume 16) and John Philip Sousa’s operetta \u003ci\u003eEl Capitan \u003c\/i\u003e(volume 14). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224837640536,"sku":"9780815313793","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780815313793_b2c82bbc-8bbe-4ab8-bd34-6366b8ab1ddf.jpg?v=1770119138","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/later-operetta-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}