Diva - Hardcover

Matheopoulos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555533582 ISBN 13: 9781555533588

Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

By interviewing 26 great women singers of the past three decades, [Matheopoulos] hopes to present a survey of the diva's art. There's a lot of talk oftechnique and training, of finding the right repertoire and of tackling it. .. . [But] there's little sense of what is involved in making words and music into drama. Nor is there any indication that opera is a vast industry involving singers, opera houses and their staff, record companies and, through subsidy, governments. Instead, a few brief words on the need for a settled family life are all we get in the way of 'context'. . . . While writing about opera remains at the level of connoisseur's tittle-tattle, opera will continue to be seen as nonsense. . . . But, for all its excesses, opera is not nonsense, and it requires a critical engagement that . . . [this book is not] prepared to make.

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Review:

Opera lovers will luxuriate in the company here of 26 divas (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

...lively accounts that offer a perspective on both their lives and careers, and at least a few clues as to why success was inevitable (OPERA News)

A serious study of serious artists. (IRISH TIMES)

An instructive and enjoyable read. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Book Description:

* Astute and intimate profiles of the new generation of glamorous young opera divas who have soared to stardom in the past five years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1555533582
• ISBN 13: 9781555533588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336