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The American opera singer : the lives and adventures of America's great singers in opera and concert, from 1825 to the present / Peter G. Davis.
LIBRA - Special ML400 .D33 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Peter G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 626 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books trade paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Opera singer
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world. In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own. Included are Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Lawrence Tibbett, and a galaxy of others whose stories are as dramatic and compelling as the roles they sang on stage.
- Contents:
- Prelude: The signorina
- Lindomania
- Career goals
- An America prima donna
- The three Emmas
- "Go on, Minnie!"
- Men at work
- Queen Adelina
- She did her damnedest
- "Last night there was skating on the Nile"
- Anna Olivia
- Around and about l'École Marchesi
- Sing low
- The divine Mary
- The great Caruso
- Gerryflappers
- A Caruso in petticoats
- Going on record
- The glory road
- Black gold
- Glamour time
- The yellow brick brewery
- Johnson babies: I
- If I could tell you
- Johnson babies: II
- Job hunting
- La divina
- Homemade goods
- At the top
- The end of the adventure
- Postlude: Life after the Three Tenors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-610) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0385421745
- 9780385421744
- OCLC:
- 41402443
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