cover image Aida

Aida

Leontyne Price, Yoshi Miyake. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $8 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-201546-6

Verdi's opera about a lovestruck Ethiopian princess is retold by one of its great performers. The paintings, said PW, ""form a stunning, unified whole... lavishly packaged and strikingly designed."" All ages. (Oct.)