Lotte Lehmann, a Life in Opera & Song

Lotte Lehmann, a Life in Opera & Song PDF Author: Beaumont Glass
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Lotte Lehmann, a Life in Opera & Song

Lotte Lehmann, a Life in Opera & Song PDF Author: Beaumont Glass
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Midway in My Song

Midway in My Song PDF Author: Lotte Lehmann
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Fifty-five Years in Five Acts

Fifty-five Years in Five Acts PDF Author: Astrid Varnay
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.

The Grove Book of Opera Singers

The Grove Book of Opera Singers PDF Author: Laura Williams Macy
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ISBN: 0195337654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649

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Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.

How to Sing

How to Sing PDF Author: Lilli Lehmann
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Category : Singing
Languages : eu
Pages : 306

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On Stage, Off Stage

On Stage, Off Stage PDF Author: Régine Crespin
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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France's most renowned classical singer shares reminiscences about her personal life and illustrious career in a charming memoir. Populated with renowned personalities, such as Leontyne Price and Maria Callas, this engaging autobiography offers a vivid and fascinating glimpse into the world of opera. It is also the compelling story of a long, hard struggle for success. Index. Illustrations. Discography. List of roles and performances.

My Many Lives

My Many Lives PDF Author: Lotte Lehmann
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Forbidden Music

Forbidden Music PDF Author: Michael Haas
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154313
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div

Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne PDF Author: Marilyn Horne
Publisher: Baskerville Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781880909713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This completely rewritten autobiography has been brought up to date with new material covering the last twenty years, all new pictures, and a CD of live recordings chosen by Mme. Horne as the best to exemplify her talent.

Richard Hageman

Richard Hageman PDF Author: Nico de Villiers
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433154737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood is the first critical biography to reconstruct Hageman's colorful life while recreating the cultural milieu in which he flourished: opera in America during the first half of the twentieth century and film scoring in Hollywood in the heyday of the studio system.