The Opera Singer

Author : Laura Williams Macy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810869165

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The Opera Singer's Career Guide by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis Pdf

Any singer longing to have a career in opera, particularly in Europe, should be familiar with the European system of classifying voices know as Fach. The Opera Singer's Career Guide: Understanding the European Fach System presents valuable information to help readers learn, understand, and use the Fach system to their professional advantage. More than just soprano, alto, tenor, or bass, students and professionals alike should know the 25 different Fach categories fully defined here, along with the examples of roles, audition arias, and European opera houses and agents provided. Based on careful research and personal experience, singer and teacher Pearl Yeadon McGinnis describes the features, characteristics, and benefits of the Fach system, including voice categorization and classification and using Fach to train the young voice. She provides practical information on maintaining a career in opera, such as the different types, procedures, and pitfalls of opera auditions; types of opera contracts and contract negotiations; and the value of networking. She explains the different styles of European opera houses and gives an example of life in a state level German opera house, including the various performance spaces, the makeup and responsibilities of an ensemble, and the jobs and functions of opera house personnel. A glossary and several appendixes supply tools for auditioning, such as newly classified roles for Children, Lyric, and Beginner singers; roles for the established Fach categories; lists of opera agents and houses in the German speaking countries; and suggested audition arias by Fach. In addition, practical details are offered about establishing and maintaining residency in Europe, obtaining permission to live and work in Europe, and helpful hints about customs and travel.

Author : Paul A. Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Imogen Crimp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526628930

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A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp Pdf

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB 'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS 'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES 'An absorbing debut about sex and power' GUARDIAN 'Elegant and witty ... A precursor to great things' THE TIMES 'One of the buzziest debut novels this spring' VOGUE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY VOGUE AND ESQUIRE _____________________________________________________________________________ A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about love, sex, power and desire, by a major new British talent Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet. It's there that she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna's intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city. But Anna's fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly – whether he necessarily wills it or not – so does Max... _____________________________________________________________________________ 'Touching on feminism, power, finances and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut' CLAIRE FULLER, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted UNSETTLED GROUND 'Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control' JESSICA ANDREWS, author of SALTWATER 'A blazing, darkly funny debut that captures a young woman's search to find herself ... It has an honesty and tenderness that will stay with me for a long time' RACHEL JOYCE

Author : Jerome Hines
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Singers
ISBN : 1617744352

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Great Singers on Great Singing by Jerome Hines Pdf

Author : Darryl W. Bullock
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Mark Ross Clark
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253109392

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Singing, Acting, and Movement in Opera by Mark Ross Clark Pdf

"... a remarkable collection of observations and reflections on past experiences by many excellent artists and teachers that will doubtless help... those interested in creating 'opera magic.'" -- Tito Capobianco Singing, Acting, and Movement in Opera is designed for use in opera and musical theater workshops and by beginning professional singers. Drawing on years of research, teaching, and performing, Mark Ross Clark provides an overview of dramatic methodology for the singing actor, encouraging the student's active participation through practical exercises and application to well-known works. The Singer-getics method emphasizes integration of the various dimensions of opera performance, creating synergies among vocal performance, character development, facial expression, and movement on the stage. The book presents important information about stagecraft, characterization, posture, historical styles, performance anxiety, aria, and scene analysis. Excerpts from interviews with performers, directors, conductors, coaches, composers, and teachers offer insights and advice, allowing the reader to "meet the artists." An appendix by postural alignment specialist Emily Bogard describes techniques of relaxation and self-awareness for the performer. This lively book will appeal to students, teachers, professionals, and general readers alike.

Author : Measha Brueggergosman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : 45,6 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 : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022143916

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When Divas Confess by Paul Griffiths Pdf

Operas most beloved stars, including Placido Domingo and Marilyn Horne, pose in full costume and makeup as they speak about their favorite roles. 100 color illustrations.

Author : Kathleen Howard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Tonia Evans Cianciulli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771177594

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The Heart's Obsession by Tonia Evans Cianciulli Pdf

In early 2017, Tonia Evans Cianciulli, a professionally trained opera singer born in St. John's, Newfoundland, began planning a concert tour in Newfoundland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Canada. 1867 was also the birth year of Georgina Stirling, Newfoundland's first prima donna soprano. Tonia noted that her personal repertoire of songs and arias almost perfectly matched that of Georgina Stirling. Thus, the Nightingale tour was launched. When Tonia shared this with her grandfather, Calvin D. Evans, a Newfoundland author, the idea of a new book on Georgina Stirling began to take shape, Tonia writing from the unique perspective of a performing artist, and Calvin providing the historical background and framework. Much new material has become available on Georgina's vocal and instrumental training in Toronto and then in Italy, France, and England, and relating to Georgina's life, her family, and to her international travels. This book provides an understanding of Georgina's accomplishments and the honour she brought to her island home, winning the hearts of audiences throughout Europe and the United States as well as through her charitable concerts in St. John's and her hometown of Twillingate. Georgina Stirling's opera career was cut short, though whether it was due to a strained voice or some kind of catastrophic emotional trauma remains a mystery. In her final years at Twillingate (1929-1935), Georgina attempted to "redeem the time" by giving back to her beloved community in song, in coaching of singing and dramatic stage productions, in many acts of service to the poor and needy, and in her profuse garden, from which she provided bouquets of roses and other flowers to the sick. Georgina's operatic triumphs and her astonishing and beautiful voice were lauded and acclaimed in concert halls and newspapers throughout Europe and the United States. She acknowledged her inspiration from the glorious sea that surrounded her island, to Newfoundland in general, and to Twillingate in particular.

Author : Keith M. Costain
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.