The Great Singers: From Jenny Lind and Caruso to Callas and Pavarotti
By Henry Pleasants.
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 &am...
ISBN(s)
0671421603, 9780671421601
