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Icons of opera : [a history in photographs, 1900-2000] / Matthew Boyden.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML87 .B62 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyden, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singers--Portraits.
- Singers.
- Opera--Pictorial works.
- Opera.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : portraits ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- North American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Thunder Bay Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- As we move into the 21st century opera is enjoying a popular revival. Since its birth in the late 1500s, opera has generally suffered from the misconception that only the privileged few, educated in the language and musical traditions of an elitist art form, could enjoy the genre. Today, however, mass culture has embraced opera -- witness the phenomenon of the Three Tenors -- and has excited ordinary people with a passion for music that synthesizes orchestra, voice, drama, and thrilling spectacle.
- Not surprisingly, this popular renaissance has resulted in the elevation of many singers to the status of icon, while at the same time helping to push relative newcomers straight into the limelight. Icons of Opera is a celebration of over eighty of opera's greatest stars in stunning black-and-white art photography.
- Contents:
- Pasquale Amato 8
- Marian Anderson 10
- Cecilia Bartoli 12
- Kathleen Battle 14
- Carlo Bergonzi 16
- Jussi Bjorling 18
- Inge Borkh 20
- Grace Bumbry 22
- Montserrat Caballe 24
- Maria Callas 26
- Emma Calve 28
- Jose Carreras 30
- Enrique Caruso 32
- Fyodor Chaliapin 34
- Boris Christoff 36
- Franco Corelli 38
- Lisa della Casa 40
- Mario del Monaco 42
- Victoria de los Angeles 44
- Emmy Destinn 46
- Giuseppe di Stefano 48
- Placido Domingo 50
- Geraldine Farrar 52
- Kathleen Ferrier 54
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 56
- Kirsten Flagstad 58
- Renee Fleming 60
- Mirella Freni 62
- Mary Garden 64
- Nicolai Gedda 66
- Beniamino Gigli 68
- Tito Gobbi 70
- Marilyn Horne 72
- Hans Hotter 74
- Maria Jeritza 76
- Siegfried Jerusalem 78
- Gwyneth Jones 80
- Alfredo Kraus 82
- Mario Lanza 84
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi 86
- Lotte Lehmann 88
- Lotte Lenya 90
- George London 92
- Giovanni Martinelli 94
- Victor Maurel 96
- Nellie Melba 98
- Lauritz Melchior 100
- Robert Merrill 102
- Sherrill Milnes 104
- Birgit Nilsson 106
- Jessye Norman 108
- Adelina Patti 110
- Luciano Pavarotti 112
- Peter Pears 114
- Alfred Piccaver 116
- Ezio Pinza 118
- Lily Pons 120
- Rosa Ponselle 122
- Leontyne Price 124
- Samuel Ramey 126
- Mark Reyzen 128
- Titta Ruffo 130
- Tito Schipa 132
- Elisabeth Schumann 134
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 136
- Beverly Sills 138
- Joan Sutherland 140
- Francesco Tamagno 142
- Richard Tauber 144
- Renata Tebaldi 146
- Kiri Te Kanawa 148
- Bryn Terfel 150
- Luisa Tetrazzini 152
- Lawrence Tibbett 154
- John Tomlinson 156
- Richard Tucker 158
- Eva Turner 160
- Astrid Varnay 162
- Jon Vickers 164
- Ramon Vinay 166
- Leonard Warren 168
- Wolfgang Windgassen 170
- Fritz Wunderlich 172
- Giovanni Zenatello 174.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boyden, Matthew. Icons of opera.
- ISBN:
- 157145294X
- 9781571452948
- OCLC:
- 123123262
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