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When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught
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by David W. Barber, Anna Russell, Dave Donald, and Maureen Forrester
Sales Rank: 545019
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$19.79
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on 6-22-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
Published by: Sound And Vision; Revised and Expanded edition October 7, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0920151345
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0920151341
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 11.4 ounces
Product Description
In the ten years since its first publication, When the Fat lady Sings has sold more than 60,000 copies worldwide. Now, to celebrate a decade of delighting opera fans and foes alike, musical historian and humorist David Barber has prepared a special revised and expanded edition of his hilarious bestselling history of opera. Chapters such as Serious Buffoonery, Teutonic Tunesmiths and, of course, Italian Sausage Machines display Barber's rapier wit and knack for knowing fascinating, if sometimes useless, information about music, musicians and the offbeat world they live in. This expanded edition includes new material ranging from Strauss to ragtime, opera to the Tenor Menace. From Italian castrati to German Ring-bearers, from Handel's fights with rival sopranos to Puccini's nicotine habit, the author of Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Tenors, Tantrums and Trills delivers a funny yet informative, irreverent yet affectionate history of serious music's most serious art form as only he can - and as only he would dare to do.
About The Author
David Barber is a journalist, author, composer and performer who lives and works in Toronto.
Dave Donald works as an art director for a Toronto-based national magazine.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught (Paperback)
I loved this book. It's funny and cute! I did never know Wagner loved pink silk underwears... It's the best book to read if you are not an opera lover, and have to get the information...
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