Opera Anecdotes (Oxford Paperbacks)

gift able- cover is glossy pages unmarked – light tanning on edges crease on back of still shiny cover. –paperback – December 8, 1988-fifth printing-backstage squabbles & box-office chicanery-gallantry and glory of creation Book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant & wise. Ethan Mordden-literature-"the best stories" and retells them in the fresh & witty style that prompted Publishers Weekly to hail him as "one of the most entertaining and provocative writers around." Mordden-selected a vast collection of classic, arcane & unusual anecdotes, including Giuseppe Verdi's advice on how to run an opera house-how to write an aria, Enrico Caruso's adventures in the San Francisco earthquake, Arturo Toscanini's reunion dinner with his former lover Geraldine Farrar-Beverly Sills' ad libbing from the Met balcony during a Lily Pons Lakmé-Sad stories-when Hans von Bülow & his wife Cosima after she has left him for Wagner-silly stories-Colonel Henry Mapleson attempts to put on Il Trovatore missing one of the four principals, Azucena.History being made- Gluck's "psychological" orchestration so startles the Paris Opéra orchestra that the players trail off in astonishment-history- Luciano Pavarotti's plane crashes en route to Milan. "There is history here," Bringing us closer moment in which art is invented-revised-elaborated- Characters of opera's adventures- vital & stimulating - I actually hand enter & research every book listed-caveman style- no scanner no generic description..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped through United States Post-Los Angeles.Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa-- expedited shipping available- carefully wrapped---Opera Anecdotes -Ethan Mordden -reprint Pub Oxford University Press, 1988 -0195056612, 9780195056617 - 267 pages Subjects - Music / Genres & Styles / Opera Music / Reference inv BMK 2 music bib 2789