Fortissimo: Backstage At The Opera With Sacred Monsters And Young Singers
by Murray, William
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1400053609
- ISBN 13
- 9781400053605
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About This Item
New York, NY: Crown, 2005. Book. New. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Crown, 2005. First edition. 8vo. Red quarter cloth over black boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 263 pp. The last book written by longtime New Yorker staff writer William Murray (also the author of Janet, My Mother, and Me), this is his tribute to opera and also to his own road not taken. Weaving recollections of his abandoned opera training in New York, Rome, and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of young opera singers today, Murray follows 12 young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's prestigious training program, the Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003-2004 season. He affectionately lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..
Synopsis
William Murray was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years and authored more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including City of the Soul and The Last Italian . He died shortly after completing this book. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Fortissimo: Backstage At The Opera With Sacred Monsters And Young Singers
- Author
- Murray, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400053609
- ISBN 13
- 9781400053605
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CLASSIC MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Drama and Acting;
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