Singers of the century / J.B. Steane.
| Author/creator | Steane, J. B. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Portland, OR : Amadeus Press, 1996. |
| Description | xi, 271 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Richard Tauber -- Emma Calve -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- Feodor Chaliapin -- Amelita Galli-Curci -- Tito Gobbi -- Nellie Melba -- Maria Ivogun -- Fernando De Lucia -- Marian Anderson -- Renato Zanelli -- Ezio Pinza -- Kathleen Ferrier -- Giuseppe di Stefano -- Luisa Tetrazzini -- Joseph Hislop -- Geraldine Farrar -- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi -- Carlo Bergonzi -- Regine Crespin -- Kirsten Flagstad -- Antonio Scotti -- Boris Christoff -- Adelina Patti -- John McCormack -- Victoria de los Angeles -- Birgit Nilsson -- Joan Cross -- Aureliano Pertile -- Antonio Cortis -- Christa Ludwig -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -- Titta Ruffo -- Maria Cebotari -- Rosa Ponselle -- Florence Austral -- Arleen Auger -- Giovanni Zenatello -- Galina Vishnevskaya -- Giuseppe De Luca -- Lucia Popp -- Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- Jon Vickers -- Elisabeth Rethberg -- Martti Talvela -- Toti Dal Monte -- Robert Merrill -- Dmitri Smirnov & Leonid Sobinov -- Gundula Janowitz -- Joan Sutherland. |
| Abstract | In this book, the author turns to the singers themselves, seeing how their art develops with the opportunities of their professional lives, with chance and design playing their part and all likely to be at the mercy of some quirk of taste or character. Each study is a carefully worked vignette, and the book is illustrated throughout with photographs and memorabilia, many never before published. This book will appeal to all those with a love of singing and of music writing at its best. |
| General note | Articles, originally published monthly in Opera now. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and indexes. |
| Other title | Opera now. |
| LCCN | 96016827 |
| ISBN | 1574670093 |