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Book Synopsis The Last Prima Donnas by : Lanfranco Rasponi
Download or read book The Last Prima Donnas written by Lanfranco Rasponi and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with fifty-six great operatic divas of the twentieth century illuminate their lives, their art, and the world of modern opera.
Book Synopsis Famous Prima Donnas by : Lewis Clinton Strang
Download or read book Famous Prima Donnas written by Lewis Clinton Strang and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leading Professionals by : Laura Empson
Download or read book Leading Professionals written by Laura Empson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of professional organizations. Drawing on the latest academic theory, and based on interviews with over 500 senior professionals, it analyses how professionals come together to create 'leadership'. It explains how change happens and why leaders so often fail.
Download or read book Prima Donna written by Megan Chance and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera singer Sabine Conrad is the toast of nineteenth-century New York high society. A celebrated soprano with the voice of an angel, she is showered with adulation by her audiences and courted by wealthy patrons. But behind the scenes, her every move is controlled by a Svengali-like manager, Gideon Price. When her attempt to escape him goes tragically awry, she flees, leaving behind a grisly murder. Three years later, as Marguerite Olson, she has put aside the prima donna she once was to run a low-class theater in Seattle. Hidden among prostitutes, drunks, and miners, a desperate and determined Marguerite carefully guards the secrets of her old life—until her past returns to offer a terrifying proposition. Prima Donna captures both the glittering decadence of New York and the rough raunchy waterfront of Seattle, as Marguerite, caught between two worlds, must find the strength to confront the truth of her past and choose which voice defines her in this dark and harrowing novel.
Book Synopsis Prima Donna by : Rupert Christiansen
Download or read book Prima Donna written by Rupert Christiansen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van leven en werk van gevierde operazangeressen uit de laatste driehonderd jaar.
Book Synopsis Changing the Score by : Hilary Poriss
Download or read book Changing the Score written by Hilary Poriss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Download or read book Prima Donna written by Keisha Ervin and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring 'The way it is' by Cat Eyez"--Cover.
Download or read book Alice May written by Adrienne Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who took part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day, including the first production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.
Download or read book Prima Donna written by Paul Wink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment by Aristotle Onassis and the rapid deterioration of her voice, Callas's midlife disintegration reflects deep psychological vulnerabilities. In this book, Wink utilizes cutting-edge advances in research on developmental psychology and narcissism to shed light on Callas's puzzling personal deterioration during the last nine years of her life. Lacking a cohesive and integrated sense of self, Callas sought affirmation and vitality from adoring audiences and older men including her husband Battista Meneghini and her long-term partner Onassis. The propensity to fuse her identity with stage roles contributed to her artistic greatness, but envy and the lack of an intrinsic sense of meaning and worth intensified her vulnerability to life's vicissitudes. Prima Donna is both a powerful study of Callas's life and a contribution to the greater body of work on the psychology of artists.
Book Synopsis The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century by : Rachel Cowgill
Download or read book The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Rachel Cowgill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.
Book Synopsis The Last Prima Donnas by : Lanfranco Rasponi
Download or read book The Last Prima Donnas written by Lanfranco Rasponi and published by Orion. This book was released on 1984 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by : Clara Louise Kellogg
Download or read book Memoirs of an American Prima Donna written by Clara Louise Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prima Donna written by Karen Swan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prima Donna is an excitingly glamorous novel from Karen Swan, author of the bestselling Christmas at Tiffany's. Breaking the rules was what she liked best. That was her sport. Renegade, rebel, bad girl. Getting away with it. Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her outrageous behaviour. She's wild and precocious, and she's a survivor. She's determined that no man will ever control her destiny. But ruthless financier Will Silk has Pia in his sights, and has other ideas . . . Sophie O'Farrell is Pia's hapless, gawky assistant, the girl-next-door to Pia's Prima Donna, always either falling in love with the wrong man or just falling over. Sophie sets her own dreams aside to pick up the debris in Pia's wake, but she's no angel. When a devastating accident threatens to cut short Pia's illustrious career, Sophie has to step out of the shadows and face up to the demons in her own life.
Book Synopsis Misunderstanding the Billionaire's Heir by : Anne-Marie Meyer
Download or read book Misunderstanding the Billionaire's Heir written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wasn't supposed to be nice. This changes everything.Charlotte Robinson has one goal: survive her senior year. Well, if she's truthful, it's actually to survive her new life without her mom. Which would be a lot easier to do if her dad was actually dealing with the death. Instead, he's buried himself in so many abandoned vehicles that their yard has turned into a suburban junkyard and it's just a matter of time before the city intervenes. When Lucas Addington, the obnoxious rich kid who's been banished to the small town of Sweet Water, douses her in his caramel macchiato, she's pretty sure she's reached her lowest low. But that's only the beginning. He's conceited and spoiled--everything she expected from a billionaire's heir--until things begin to change. Suddenly, she finds herself drawn to him for reasons she can't explain. He makes her feel safe and wanted, something she'd forgotten how to feel. Just when she allows herself to open up to him, her life comes crashing down around her.Now Charlotte must decide if she can fix her crumbling life and keep Lucas, or fail and lose everything she holds dear...again.1 town. 1 high school. 12 sweet romances.Read Misunderstanding the Billionaire's Heir from Anne-Marie Meyer. It is the first installment of the Sweet Water High Multi-Author Series.
Book Synopsis The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 by : Susan Rutherford
Download or read book The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 written by Susan Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis Famous Prima Donnas by : Strang Lewis Clinton
Download or read book Famous Prima Donnas written by Strang Lewis Clinton and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Death at La Fenice written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series. During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role. “One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post “A brilliant writer . . . an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” —The New York Times Book Review
