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Item Details
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WHEN THE FAT LADY SINGS
OPERA HISTORY AS IT OUGHT TO BE TAUGHT |
| By: |
DAVID W. BARBER |
| Format: |
paperback |
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£8.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0920151345 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780920151341 |
| Publisher: |
SOUND AND VISION PUBLISHING LTD ,CANADA |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2002 |
| Edition: |
REV ED |
| Pages: |
145 |
| Description: |
Offers a tounge-in-cheek description of the history of opera and such composers as Bizet, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini. |
| Synopsis: |
In the 10 years since its first publication, When the Fat Lady Sings has sold more than 60,000 copies worldwide. Now, to celebrate a decade of delighting opera fans and foes alike, musical historian and humorist David Barber has prepared a special revised and expanded edition of his hilarious bestselling history of opera. Chapters such as "Serious Buffoonery," "Teutonic Tunesmiths" and, of course, "Italian Sausage Machines" display Barber's rapier wit and knack for knowing fascinating, if sometimes useless, information about music, musicians and the offbeat world they live in. This expanded edition includes new material ranging from Strauss to ragtime, opera to the Tenor Menace. From Italian castrati to German Ring-bearers, from Handel's fights with rival sopranos to Puccini's nicotine habit, the author of "Bach, Beethoven and the Boys" and "Tenors, Tantrums and Trills" delivers a funny yet informative, irreverent yet affectionate history of serious music's most serious art form as only he can - and as only he would dare to do. |
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Non-returnable |
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