Research Catalog

Title

Visiting cards of prima donnas : from the collection of F. C. Schang / with comment by him.

Author

Schang, F. C.

Publication

New York : Vantage Press, c1977.

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Details

Description

111 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Answers to these questions will be found in this book: Who was the most prima of the donnas? What prima donna was shipwrecked on an Indonesian isle? What singer was the first American to sing Carmen? What prima donna never attended opera rehearsals? What singer was daughter of a blacksmith and married a millionaire? What diva wrote a book on the physical mechanics of singing? What singer wrote operettas to the librettos of Turgenev? What singer performed on the Met stage with a gaggle of trained geese? What prima donna "discharged" unfavorable critics? What singer exposed her navel on the Met stage (before Cher was born?) Who is the only singer ever invited to join the Met's Board of Directors? What singer sang all three soprano parts in Rosenkavalier? What singer jumped directly from Keith vaudeville to the Metropolitan Opera House? What Met singer was listed as one of the 10 best-dressed women in the United States? Who is the only opera singer ever to have had a big movie hit? What singer had two menu items named after her? What prima donna once directed an opera company? What opera soprano knows how to sing a popular song? Who taught her? What singer opened the present Metropolitan Opera House in 1966? What singer's scale was so perfect a fiddler could tune his violin by it? What singer was worried about marrying a man "younger or Jewish" and ended up doing both? What prima donna confines her appearances to those conducted by her husband?" --Dust jacket.

Subject

• Singers > Anecdotes
• Visiting cards

Genre/Form

Anecdotes

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 110-111.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jenny Lind -- Giuseppina Strepponi (Verdi) -- Pauline Viardot -- Therese Stolz -- Adelina Patti -- Emma Albani -- Romilda Pantaleoni -- Lilli Lehmann -- Minnie Hauk -- Lillian Nordica -- Emma Calvé -- Marcella Sembrich -- Nellie Melba -- Emma Eames -- Luisa Tetrazzini -- Rosina Storchio -- Mary Garden -- Emmy Destinn -- Geraldine Farrar -- Maria Jeritza -- Lotte Lehmann -- Lucrezia Bori -- Anna Case -- Amelita Galli-Curci -- Elisabeth Rethberg -- Rosa Ponselle -- Lily Pons -- Grace Moore -- Gladys Swarthout -- Risë Stevens -- Licia Albanese -- Dorothy Kirsten -- Birgit Nilsson -- Maria Callas -- Joan Sutherland -- Leontyne Price -- Beverly Sills -- Anna Moffo.

ISBN

0533028175

LCCN

^^^78302547^/MN/r943

OCLC

• 3729221
• SCSB-10024565

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library