As promised last week, I append below a list of errata found in the first printing of “Opera as Opera.” I have omitted a few simple misspellings and typos, including only the errata that interfere with meaning and/or are misleading. The most important are those from P. 305 to P. 403, where incorrect endnote and footnote numbers are confusing. I suggest that owners of the first printing print this out and retain it for reference. All discovered errata have been corrected in the second printing, now available.
Several correspondents have been kind enough to call these to my attention. I particularly wish to thank Jon Alan Conrad and “Der Merker,” Vienna (http://www.dermerker.com), for their alertness and promptness in conveying these corrections.
P. 129, n. 11: “the same author’s” should read “Jon Alan Conrad’s.” The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Records should read The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Recordings.
P. 270, line 6: “mid-Sixties” should read “1959.”
305, 2nd footnote: “n. 28” should read “n. 2.”
314, 1st footnote: “n. 29” should read “n. 3.”
330: “(see n. 36)” should read “(see n. 10).”
P. 359, last line of text: “discrete” should read “discreet.”
359, footnote: “n. 51” should read “n. 28.”
362: “(see n. 49)” should read “(see n. 24).”
386, line 4: “n. 7045” should read “n. 45.”
413, n. 14, line 1: “1952” should read “1962.”
P. 447, line 6: “Act III” should read “Act II, Scene 2.”
CLO
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