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William Murray

Fortissimo

Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers

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H. L. Mencken declared that the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song.In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003-2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-307-52506-2
  • EAN: 9780307525062
  • Produktnummer: 15733360
  • Verlag: Crown
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'932 KB

Über den Autor


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.

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