A translation by Richard Salinger from the German of “The Opera Goers' Complete Guide”, by Leo Melitz, director of the Stadt Theater, Berlin, contains the stories of more than two hundred operas. In these days of piano-players and phonographs there is operatic music in every household. The intelligent appreciation of such music is so dependent upon the knowledge of the story of the opera that it is not only the opera-goer who wants a reference book of this kind. It contains all the important operas written up to 1907 in short, condensed form, with the musical numbers and casts.

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