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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
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Davis, Peter G.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML400 .D33 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 626 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-610) and index.
- ISBN
- 0385421737 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0385474954
- LCCN
- 97009123
- OCLC
- ocm36387604
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries