Catropolitan Opera (Hardcover)

After amusing the world with her feline versions of famous paintings, and more recently the favorite plays of Shakespeare, Susan Herbert now turns her witty paintbrush to the great operas. Here her inimitable cats play out the tragic drama of Verdi's La Traviata, the awesome interplay of gods and humans in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the rousing action of Rossini's William Tell, and the wrenching pathos of Puccini's La Boheme, among many others.

Those who have enjoyed the artist's six previous books will delight in this new collection. And, with a captivating variety of operatic scenes and set pieces, from rousing choral ensembles to intimate arias (catcalls not allowed ), it's sure to win her a fresh band of admirers among opera lovers everywhere.