The last prima donnas / Lanfranco Rasponi.

Author/creator Rasponi, Lanfranco
Format Book
Edition2nd Limelight edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Limelight Editions, 1994, ©1982.
Descriptionxv, 635 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Subjects
Women singers--Interviews.

Contents Voices and repertoire -- The huge voices. Ebe Stignani ; Elena Nicolai ; Eva Turner ; Gertrud Grob-Prandl -- The Wagnerian enchantresses. Kirsten Flagstad ; Germaine Lubin ; Hilde Konetzni ; Elisabeth Grummer -- The great creators. Gilda dalla Rizza ; Viorica Ursuleac ; Denise Duval -- The great coloraturas. Amelita Galli-Curci ; Toti dal Monte ; Lina Pagliughi ; Margherita Carosio -- The great dramatics. Ester Mazzoleni ; Iva Pacetti ; Gina Cigna ; Zinka Milanov -- The great spintos. Hildegard Ranczak ; Maria Caniglia ; Renata Tebaldi -- The great lyrics. Ines Alfani Tellini ; Adelaide Saraceni ; Maria Laurenti ; Dorothy Kirsten -- The great artists. Gianna Pederzini ; Elisabeth Hongen ; Jarmila Novotna ; Lisa della Casa -- The great interpreters of verismo and realismo. August Oltrabella ; Maria Carbone ; Iris Adami Corradetti -- The late bloomers. Giulietta Simionato ; Germana di Giulio ; Claire Watson -- The money-makers. Gladys Swarthout ; Grace Moore ; Lily Pons -- The grande mademoiselle of the Metropolitan opera. Lucrezia Bori -- The Italian beauties. Bianca Stagno Bellincioni ; Gemma Bosini Stabile ; Sara Scuderi -- The opera-and-lieder singers. Lotte Lehmann ; Sena Jurinac ; Irmgard Seefried -- The small voices that traveled far. Bidu Sayao ; Mafalda Favero ; Rita Streich -- The switchers. Giulia Tess ; Martha Modl ; Esther Rethy -- The meteors. Stella Roman ; Rosanna Carteri ; Anita Cerquetti -- The one and only. Maria Callas.
Abstract Interviews with fifty-six great operatic divas of the twentieth century illuminate their lives, their art, and the world of modern opera.
General noteReprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1982.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN84026129
ISBN0879100400 (pbk.)