The great singers : from the dawn of opera to our own time / Henry Pleasants.
| Author/creator | Pleasants, Henry |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Simon and Schuster, [1966] |
| Description | 382 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | Fireside book |
| Contents | Part one. The age of Bel Canto. Singer and setting -- The castrati -- Some early virtuosos. Baldassare Ferri ; Siface (Giovanni Francesco Grossi) ; Nicolino (Nicolo Grimaldi) -- Virtuosos of the first "Golden age". Antonio Pistocchi ; Antonio Bernacchi ; Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) ; Giovbanni Carestini ; Niccolo Porpora ; Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) ; Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano) ; Gaetano Guadagni -- The last full flower. Gasparo Pacchierotti ; Luigi Marchesi ; Girolamo Crescentini ; Giovanni-Battista Velluti -- Some early Prima Donnas. Francesca Cuizzoni and Faustina Bordoni ; Vittoria Tesi ; Mara -- The end of the era. Brigitta Banti ; Mrs. Billington ; Angelica Catalani -- Epilogue for basses and tenors. Giuseppe Boschi and Antonio Montagnana ; Ludwig Fischer ; Annibale Pio Fabre ; Anton Raaff ; Manuel Garcia ; Giovanni-Battista Rubini -- Part two. The age of grand opera. A new kind of Prima Donnas. Giuditta Pasta ; Maria Malibran ; Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient -- A new kind of tenor. Domenico Donzelli ; Adolphe Nourrit ; Gilbert-Louis Duprez ; Enrico Tamberlik ; Joseph Tichatschek -- The great quartet. Giulia Grisi ; Mario ; Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache -- The nightingales. Henriette Sontag ; Jenny Lind ; Adelina Patti -- The mezzo minority. Benedetta Pisaroni ; Pauline Viardot ; Marietta Alboni -- The new German singer. Ludwig Schnorr ; Lilli Lehmann -- Some gentlemen of the last "Golden age". Victor Maurel ; Francesco Tamagno ; Jean de Reszke -- Some ladies of the last "Golden age". Lillian Nordica ; Nellie Melba ; Marcella Sembrich and Emma Eames ; Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- An Italian afterglow. Titta Ruffo ; Luisa Tetrazzini and Amelita Galli-Curci ; Enrico Caruso ; Rosa Ponselle -- The singing actress. Emma Calve ; Mary Garden ; Geraldine Farrar -- Some gentlemen who stand apart. Feodor Chaliapin ; John McCormack ; Richard Tauber ; Lawrence Tibbett -- And two ladies. Marian Anderson ; Kirsten Flagstad. |
| Abstract | Here, with a splendid richness of color and detail, the distinguished author recreates the personalities and performances, the lives and art of "the great singers" who have left their mark on our musical culture. |
| Local note | Little-84400 - $7.50 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index. |
| LCCN | 66020250 |
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