The Great Singers From Jenny Lind And Caruso To Callas And Pavarotti

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1981
Edition: Reprint

Description: 395 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers 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.

ISBN: 0671421603