The Great Singers: From Jenny Lind and Caruso to Callas and Pavarotti
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Book
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ISBN 10
0671421603
ISBN 13
9780671421601
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Publication Year
1985
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Pages
395
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Description
Here are the personalities & performances, the lives & the art of the great singers of all time - from the dawn of operating singing in the 16001 through the golden ages of bel canto & grand operat, to the present opera scene. Fascinating capsule stories - eyewitness accounts, conteporary reports, & entertaining anecdotes - give the reader a close & accurate look at music's revered greats, many of whose voices were never recorded & can be recalled only by those who saw & heard them. More than 150 maginificently reproduced paintings, photographs, prints & caricatures blend with the text to bring these legendary singers back to bibrant life. For the confirmed opera buff & the novice listener, this book is an informative, colorful, & highly readable history of singing through the personalities of those who shaped its course. - from Amzon
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