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Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
Fortissimo Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
Author: William Murray
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. — In ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400053605
ISBN-10: 1400053609
Publication Date: 9/13/2005
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Crown
Book Type: Hardcover
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