Opera Singer

Author : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316300650

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Sing for Your Life by Daniel Bergner Pdf

The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air). "One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the street from drug dealers. His father was absent; his mother was volatile and abusive. At the age of twelve, Ryan was sent to Virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. He was placed in solitary confinement. He was uncontrollable, uncontainable, with little hope for the future. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses. Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from solitary confinement to stardom. Daniel Bergner takes readers on Ryan's path toward redemption, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters -- including the two teachers from his childhood who redirect his rage into music, and his long-lost father who finally reappears to hear Ryan sing. Bergner illuminates all that it takes -- technically, creatively -- to find and foster the beauty of the human voice. And Sing for Your Life sheds unique light on the enduring and complex realities of race in America.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781105997761

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The blacklisted opera singer by Michael Kennedy Pdf

The Kennedy's the first act to be sent home in the third round of Britain's Got Talent 2009. In fact, the first act to be shown on film leaving the room of the grand staircase in Lancaster House. The Kennedy's the act; Michael, Emily, Joseph and Adam. We sang Panis Angelicus and were judged by Simon Cowell Piers Morgan Kelly Brook and Amanda Holden. This is an autobiographical account of his singing life up to press. winner of Wharfedale Music festival operatic solo class, Skipton Music festival tenor class has played many cameo roles in opera and shows. Ten times winner of the Queens Hotel talent competition in Blackpool. He has performed the tenor roles in the oratorios Messiah (Handel) the Crucifixion (Stainer) and Magnificat (Pergolesi). Michael has also gained popularity on the internet and many recorded examples exist on sites all over the cyber world. Notably he is also featured on the URDB website smashing all sorts of singing records.

Author : Kathleen Howard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066222307

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Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard Pdf

Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard is about the musings and dreams of an upper-class girl who was brought up with an early love of opera. Excerpt: "I WAS very young and I was engaged to be married. We had just lost our money in a rather dramatic fashion, and we were all doing what we could to supply the sudden deficit. My sister began to prepare herself to be a teacher, my brother left his boarding school and came home to go into a friend's office, and I—well, I accepted the hand and heart of the young man in our set with whom I had had most pleasure in dancing in winter and sailing in summer."

Author : Keith M. Costain
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460226841

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The Opera Singer by Keith M. Costain Pdf

The book is a fictional memoir of a child's life on the Isle-of-Man during the Second World War and focuses on the child's relationship with a German/Jewish opera singer interned in Ramsey, the child's home town.

Author : April Tiang
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479763269

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The Opera Singer's Daughter by April Tiang Pdf

Woman has been the weaker sex and being used, raped, traded, manipulated and sometimes abused throughout the early ages. Millions and millions of untold stories must have happened to them being a commodity of commerce, a chip to settle scores among men, or simply a tool to use. The value of a female can be zilch; there is no need to elaborate on this. However, all this are slowly changing, mainly through education and the fight for rights as human beings, not chattels. The change is not complete and never will be, because of the evolving societal values placed on woman. The story of early migrants, mainly from southern China, to escape famine and start a new life in a yet undeveloped Southeast Asia, form the threads of the fabric that weave into the new society made up the large diaspora of immigrants.

Author : Laura Williams Macy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195337655

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The Grove Book of Opera Singers by Laura Williams Macy Pdf

Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.

Author : Dorothea Link
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252053658

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The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna by Dorothea Link Pdf

Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.

Author : Paul A. Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1736895109

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Opera Singer by Paul A. Larson Pdf

What does a person do, when he has dreams of becoming a singer, but the country he lives in is invaded by another country, his government is overthrown, and his country is plagued by severe famine? What if the new government is taking away everyone's possessions and requiring everyone to become a communist or be imprisoned and possibly die? Welcome to the world of Luka Imanov! Join Luka and his wife Katerina (Katt), on their bittersweet journey as they deal with love, loss, and the turmoil surrounding the Russian Revolution. Witness their struggle with a world where all the rules have suddenly changed. A place that treats an honest man like a criminal and where just getting enough food to eat becomes a daily challenge. Will Luka allow a hostile government to peel away his identity, or does he stand firm in who he is and what he stands for? Is it possible for a brutal prison guard to rob Luka of his music? Will Luka have the strength and courage to carry on and somehow find his way home? His name is Luka Imanov, and they call him "The Opera Singer".

Author : Darryl W. Bullock
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468314090

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Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! by Darryl W. Bullock Pdf

An inspiring biography of the socialite and amateur soprano who didn’t let her terrible voice stop her—Now the subject of a major motion picture. Magazine Madame Jenkins couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of seventy-six, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins’s meteoric rise to success and the man who stood beside her, through every sharp note. Florence was ridiculed for her poor control of timing, pitch, and tone, and terrible pronunciation of foreign lyrics, but the sheer entertainment value of her caterwauling packed out theatres around the United States, with the “singer” firmly convinced of her own talent, partly thanks to the devoted attention for her husband and manager St. Clair Bayfield. Her story is one of triumph in the face of adversity, courage, conviction and of the belief that with dedication and commitment a true artist can achieve anything. “Darryl W. Bullock’s charming FLORENCE! FOSTER!! JENKINS!!! is just about right for those who want to know more about the world’s worst opera singer. . . . Thoroughly readable and entertaining. This appealing little biography―which arrives just as a film version of its heroine’s story, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, has been released in the U.S.―is warmhearted and delightful. At its core is a touching love story, as well as a message about the human spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Sylvia Yorke
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480926851

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Molly, the Opera-singing Cow by Sylvia Yorke Pdf

Molly, the Opera-singing Cow by Sylvia Yorke Molly is just another cow in Farmer Jessup’s Kansas barn, until a radio broadcast captures her attention and launches her on an unusual path—for a cow. Farmer Jessup happily does his Saturday barn chores with the radio blasting opera performances all the way from New York City. He especially likes “Madame Butterfly.” And Molly can’t help but listen. One day a strange sound begins to well up in her throat. Her “moo” sounds different, quite odd, but surprisingly pleasant to her ears. She tries out her new moo every day. But in this effort to learn a new skill, her animal friends jeer and desert her. Molly perseveres, refining her moo for the big fair. Molly, the Opera-singing Cow, is a delightful tale of a cow and her special moo!

Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521426979

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Singers of Italian Opera by John Rosselli Pdf

Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.

Author : Measha Brueggergosman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443438858

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Something Is Always On Fire by Measha Brueggergosman Pdf

Opera sensation Measha Brueggergosman has moved audiences around the world with her unique gifts. Among her many triumphs, she has won Juno Awards, been nominated for a Grammy, sung to a telecast of over 3 billion viewers at the opening of the 2010 Olympic Games, and soloed in the great concert halls of Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe. But her success has been matched by personal hardship. As she explains, “I believe I can now look back on my life and understand its trajectory, both the painful parts and the joyful parts. I know that I have been blessed on a scale which is almost ridiculous, but which is pretty much in balance with what I’ve experienced in heartache.” In this searingly honest and insightful memoir, Brueggergosman shares her experiences with music, but also her ongoing struggle to balance her ambition for a life fully lived with the traditions and responsibilities she has committed herself to. She reflects on the ups and downs of marrying young and the tragedy of losing children, on the efforts to understand who she has become in contrast to how she was raised, on how her health problems have changed her, on the psychological push-and-pull of being a performer and the unavoidable effects of consistent audience approval. Through it all, Brueggergosman has weathered the storms, bolstered by her faith and her family, and revelling in her appetite for music, food, yoga and sex.

Author : Peter G. Davis
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019341309

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The American Opera Singer by Peter G. Davis Pdf

In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world. In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own. Starting with opera's arrival in America in the early nineteenth century, Davis shows how American singers grew in sophistication and stature along with the country. From the nineteenth-century pioneers who crashed the gates of Europe's elite opera circles, to the glamorous singers of the early twentieth century who were also Hollywood stars and publicity magnets, to the highly professional singers since World War II who not only have gained European acceptance but now dominate the industry, this lively and highly readable account chronicles the extraordinary lives and adventures of these larger-than-life personalities. Included are Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Lawrence Tibbett, and a galaxy of others whose stories are as dramatic and compelling as the roles they sang on stage. Full of prima-donna antics, hilarious backstage anecdotes, and performance lore, "The American Opera Singer will delight anyone who has felt the magic of opera, and will provide a new canon of American singing sure to provoke spirited debate among aficionados. Trained as a musician and composer, Peter G. Davis has been writing about music for over thirty years in such publications as the "NewYork Times, The Times of London, High Fidelity, and "Opera News. He is currently music critic for "New York magazine and lives in New York City. Experience the artistry of America's supremely talented singers on RCA Victor Red Seal's "The American Opera Singer, a companion 2-CD set to this book, now available in record stores.

Author : Jerome Hines
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Singers
ISBN : 1617744352

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Great Singers on Great Singing by Jerome Hines Pdf

Author : Scott D. Harrison,Jessica O'Bryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401788519

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Teaching Singing in the 21st Century by Scott D. Harrison,Jessica O'Bryan Pdf

This volume brings together a group of leading international researchers and practitioners in voice pedagogy alongside emerging academics and practitioners. Encompassing research across voice science and pedagogy, this innovative collection transcends genre boundaries and provides new knowledge about vocal styles and approaches from classical and musical theatre to contemporary commercial music. The work is sure to be valuable in tertiary institutions, schools and community music associations, suitable for use by private studio teachers, and will appeal to choral leaders and music educators interested in vocal pedagogy. “I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I am confident it will help bring all aspects of vocal pedagogy firmly into the 21st century. Refreshingly, many different areas of pedagogy are included in the text so we can all work together to more fully understand the singing voice. Up to the moment research is included along with an exploration of the evolving contemporary styles of singing. Further, areas regarding teaching and curriculum in higher education are also reviewed. All in all, this text a crucial addition to a professional's vocal library.” Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.