On stage, off stage : a memoir / by Régine Crespin ; translated by G.S. Bourdain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crespin, Régine.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Crespin, Régine.

Sopranos (Singers)--Biography.

Sopranos (Singers).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1997]

Summary:

France's most renowned classical singer shares reminiscences about her personal life and illustrious career in this charming memoir. With candor, affection, and humor, Regine Crespin reflects on her family, friends, and colleagues, her love affairs, and, most of all, the opera. Populated with such figures as Herbert von Karajan, Lotte Lehmann, Jon Vickers, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Maria Callas, this engaging autobiography offers a vivid and fascinating glimpse into the world of opera. It is also the inviting story of a remarkable woman who was a diva on the stage but never a prima donna in real life.

Notes:

Pt. 1 originally published: La vie et l'amour d'une femme. Paris : Fayard, 1982.

Includes discography (pages [275]-289) and index.

Contains:

Crespin, Régine. Vie et l'amour d'une femme. English.

ISBN:

1555533280

OCLC:

36892837