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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Rosa Ponselle; Rosa Ponselle |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James A Drake |
| ISBN: | 1574670190 9781574670196 |
| OCLC Number: | 35017436 |
| Description: | 494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series Title: | Opera biography series, no. 9. |
| Responsibility: | James A. Drake ; chronology of performances by Thomas G. Kaufman ; bibliography by Andrew Farkas ; discography by Bill Park ; photographic editor, James M. Alfonte. |
Abstract:
her sister Carmela to acclaim on the stage of the Met is one of opera's great romantic stories. The author of this centenary biography, James A. Drake, began researching that story in collaboration with Ponselle herself for their 1982 book, Ponselle: A Singer's Life. The present work not only collects many of the interviews with Ponselle that provided the raw material for the earlier biography, but also includes interviews with friends, colleagues, and associates that.
supplement, support - and sometimes contradict - her own recollections. In addition, the author has scrutinized the documentary record for contemporary reports of these events, and has woven them into a well-crafted, absorbing chronicle of the diva's struggle from New York to Hollywood and abroad. Supplemented with many rare photographs, an updated discography, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology of her vaudeville, operatic, and concert performances, Rosa.
Ponselle: A Centenary Biography is an invitation to readers to join in the engrossing search for the real Rosa Ponselle.
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