[Oliver Messel]
A 1958 Glyndebourne Opera programme with a cover design by Oliver Messel. Messel designed the set and costumes for the season's productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Comte Ory and Ariadne auf Naxos. Other operas staged in 1958 were Falstaff (designed by Osbert Lancaster), Alceste, The Rake's Progress (also Lancaster) and Il Segreto di Susanna. The programme includes articles, synopses and contemporary adverts.
Edited by Maron Caplat. Cover artwork and titles by Oliver Messel. Glynebourne Publications. London. 1958. Paperback, 4to; illustrated wrappers. 88 pages. Illustrated in colour and b&w. English. 310 x 245mm. 0.5kg. . Very good; light shelf wear to wrappers, some creasing to wrappers where edges extend over text block, light ruffling to spine ends.
