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Ma voie
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Barbara Hendricks |
491 pages, [32" pages of plates : 24 cm + |
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As music and splendour
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Kate O'Brien |
Set in the 1880s and '90s, As Music and Splendour tells the story of two young Irish girls who are sent to Rome for training as opera singers. Rose – red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced – is soon … |
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
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Norman, Jessye |
The Grammy Award-winning opera star describes her childhood in the segregated South, the community values and role models that shaped her ambitions, her meteoric rise at the Berlin Opera and the acco… |
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Maria Callas
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Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos |
Biografie van de Griekse operazangeres Maria Callas (1923-1977). |
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Vienna nocturne
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Vivien Shotwell |
"Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirte… |
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I sang the unsingable
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Bethany Beardslee |
"American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years, when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical … |
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Falling in love
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Donna Leon |
Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer. |
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Ultimo atto al teatro dell'Opera
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Pierdomenico Baccalario,Alessandro Gatti,Irene Adler, pseud. |
Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes, and Arsène Lupin plan to reunite in London, but Lupin doesn't show up. His father, Théophraste, has been arrested for murder! |
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Lois Marshall
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James E. Neufeld |
"Although she called herself "just a singer," soprano Lois Marshall (1925-97) became a household name across Canada during her thirty-four-year career and remains one of the foremost figures in the h… |
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The castrato
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Joyce Oudkerk Pool |
"It is Florence, 1698, and Angelo Montegne has discovered the cost of having a beautiful voice. Soon the young castrato is at the center of court intrigue as he struggles with his new reality and tho… |
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Leontyne Price, opera superstar
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Sylvia B. Williams |
A brief biography of the black opera singer who is one of the most celebrated sopranos of her time and who, among other honors, opened the inaugural season of the new Metropolitan Opera House. |
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The queen's soprano
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Carol Dines |
Seventeen year-old Angelica Voglia lives in seventeenth-century Rome and has the voice of an angel, but because the pope forbids women to sing in public, she must escape to Queen Christina's palace t… |
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Marvelous Melba
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Ann Blainey |
""Nobody sings like Melba, and nobody ever will," proclaimed the impresario Oscar Hammerstein in 1908. Like many others at the time, he considered her to be the world's greatest singer. The wild accl… |
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Puccini's Ghosts
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Morag Joss |
CWA Silver Dagger Award winner Morag Joss peers into the soul of a wounded family in this haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes u… |
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A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American Singer and Social Activist (Bla…
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Lisa Pertillar Brevard |
"Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-America… |
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The Inner Voice
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Renee Fleming |
One of the most celebrated talents in today’s music scene, soprano Renee Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear on performances … |
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