Title:
Singers of the century / J.B. Steane.
Author:
Steane, J. B.
Publication Information:
Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, 1996-©2000.
Call Number:
ML400 .S83 1996 V.2
Abstract:
In his previous books about singers, John Steane has taken for his subject the art of singing as heard on records (The Grand Tradition) and 'in the flesh' in opera houses and concert halls (Voices, Singers and Critics). Here, in Singers of the Century, he turns to the singers themselves, seeing how their art develops with the opportunities of their professional lives, with chance and design playing their part and all likely to be at the mercy of some quirk of taste or character. Each study is a carefully worked vignette, and the book is illustrated throughout with photographs and memorabilia, many never before published. Singers of the Century will appeal to all those with a love of singing and of music writing at its best.
Added Uniform Title:
Opera now.
ISBN:
9781574670097
9781574670400
9781574670578
9780715629895
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Articles, most originally published monthly in Opera now.
Contents:
v. 1. -- 1. Richard Tauber -- 2. Emma Calve -- 3. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- 4. Feodor Chaliapin -- 5. Amelita Galli-Curci -- 6. Tito Gobbi -- 7. Nellie Melba -- 8. Maria Ivogun -- 9. Fernando De Lucia -- 10. Marian Anderson -- 11. Renato Zanelli -- 12. Ezio Pinza -- 13. Kathleen Ferrier -- 14. Giuseppe di Stefano -- 15. Luisa Tetrazzini -- 16. Joseph Hislop -- 17. Geraldine Farrar -- 18. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi -- 19. Carlo Bergonzi -- 20. Regine Crespin -- 21. Kirsten Flagstad -- 22. Antonio Scotti -- 23. Boris Christoff -- 24. Adelina Patti -- 25. John McCormack -- 26. Victoria de los Angeles -- 27. Birgit Nilsson -- 28. Joan Cross -- 29. Aureliano Pertile -- 30. Antonio Cortis -- 31. Christa Ludwig -- 32. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -- 33. Titta Ruffo -- 34. Maria Cebotari -- 35. Rosa Ponselle -- 36. Florence Austral -- 37. Arleen Auger -- 38. Giovanni Zenatello -- 39. Galina Vishnevskaya -- 40. Giuseppe De Luca -- 41. Lucia Popp -- 42. Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- 43. Jon Vickers -- 44. Elisabeth Rethberg -- 45. Martti Talvela -- 46. Toti Dal Monte -- 47. Robert Merrill -- 48. Dmitri Smirnov & Leonid Sobinov -- 49. Gundula Janowitz -- 50. Joan Sutherland.
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