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Language
English
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Jessye Norman is not only one of the world's most admired and beloved opera stars--she is an American icon whose life story is as inspiring as the fictional plot triumphs she sang onstage. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of many generations of hardworking slave and free ancestors, she grew up amid the challenges of Jim Crow racism, with the civil rights movement just beginning to awaken. Nurtured by a close family and tight-knit...
Author
Language
English
Description
Death at La Fenice, the first novel in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli -- then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing." Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian parents, Florence was a talented young pianist but her life was thrown into turmoil when she eloped with Frank Jenkins, a man twice her age. The marriage...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Delacorte Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1960, fifteen-year-old Lila escapes the confines of school and her mother's hysterics to spend the summer with her uncle George, a music teacher preparing to stage a Puccini opera in Burnhead, on the west coast of Scotland.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
2-disc special widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Author
Series
Something fabulous volume 2
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reluctantly agreeing to help her former flame, Arabella Tarleton woo the famous and flamboyant opera singer Orfeo, Peggy Delancey unexpectedly finds common ground with this celebrated soprano--and an instant connection as they walk the line between friendship, flirtation and something more"--
Peggy Delancey's not at all ready to move on from her former flame, Arabella Tarleton. But Belle has her own plans for a love match, and she needs Peggy's...
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