A crippled shepherd boy entertained the Wise men on their way to Bethlehem. He gave them a simple gift for the Christ Child and received a miraculous gift in return.

Retellings of the stories of twenty-three well-known operas such as Madame Butterfly by Puccini, The Magic Flute by Mozart, and Carmen by Bizet.

Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, and they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...

"The purpose of this book is to present the essential materials of thirty-two operas, the musical materials in general on the left-hand page, the corresponding dramatic materials on the right"

A retelling, based on the 1903 operetta, of the classic story of how two young people are pursued by the evil Barnaby.

An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.

The opera is based on Beaumarchias' comedy Le Barbier de Sevill.

This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.