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- catalog abstract "Here are the personalities and performances, the lives and the art of the great singers of all time, from the dawn of operatic singing in the 1600s through the golden ages of bel canto and grand opera to the present opera scene. More than 130 magnificently reproduced paintings, photographs, prints and caricatures blend with the text to bring these legendary singers back to vibrant life. - Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b1141654.
- catalog created "c1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "c1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1981.".
- catalog description "Adolphe Nourrit -- Gilbert-Louis Duprez -- Enrico Tamberlik -- Joseph Tichatschek -- The great quartet. Giulia Grisi -- Mario -- Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache -- The nightingales. Henriette Sontag -- Jenny Lind -- Adelina Patti -- The mezzo minority. Benedetta Pisaroni -- Pauline Viardot -- Marietta Alboni -- The new German singer. Ludwig Schnorr -- Lilli Lehmann -- Some gentlemen of the last Golden Age. -- Victor Maurel -- Francesco Tamagno -- Jean de Reszke -- Some ladies of the last Golden Age. Lillian Nordica -- Nellie Melba -- Marcella Sembrich and Emma Eames -- Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- An Italianate afterglow. Titta Ruffo -- Luisa Tetrazzini and Amelita Galli-Curci -- Enrico Caruso -- Rosa Ponselle -- The singing actresses. Emma Calve -- Mary Garden -- Geraldine Farrar -- Some gentlemen who stand apart. Feodor Chaliapin -- John McCormack -- Richard Tauber -- Lawrence Tibbett -- And two ladies. Marian Anderson -- Kirsten Flagstad -- Cadenza -- Coda -- Glossary -- ".
- catalog description "Bibliography -- About the author.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 373-377.".
- catalog description "Here are the personalities and performances, the lives and the art of the great singers of all time, from the dawn of operatic singing in the 1600s through the golden ages of bel canto and grand opera to the present opera scene. More than 130 magnificently reproduced paintings, photographs, prints and caricatures blend with the text to bring these legendary singers back to vibrant life. - Back cover.".
- catalog description "The singer and setting -- The Castrati -- Some early virtuosos. Baldassare Ferri -- Siface (Giovanni Francesco Grossi) -- Nicolino (Nicolo Grimaldi) -- Virtuosos of the first Golden Age. Antonio Pistocchi -- Antonio Bernacchi -- Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) -- Giovanni Carestini -- Niccolo Porpora -- Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) -- Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano) -- Gaetano Guadagni -- The last full flower. Gasparo Pacchierotti -- Luigi Marchesi -- Girolamo Crescentini -- Giovanni-Battista -- Velluti -- Some early prima donnas. Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni -- Vittoria Tesi -- Mara -- The end of the era. Brigitta Banti -- Mrs. Billington -- Angelica Catalani -- Epilogue for basses and tenors. Giuseppe Boschi and Antonio Montagnana -- Ludwig Fischer -- Annibale Pio Fabri -- Anton Raaff -- Manuel Garcia -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini -- A new kind of prima donna. Giuditta Pasta -- Maria Malibran -- Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient -- A new kind of tenor. Domenico Donzelli -- ".
- catalog extent "395 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Great singers.".
- catalog identifier "0671421603 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Great singers.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "c1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon and Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Great singers.".
- catalog subject "ML400 .P65 1981".
- catalog subject "Singers.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Adolphe Nourrit -- Gilbert-Louis Duprez -- Enrico Tamberlik -- Joseph Tichatschek -- The great quartet. Giulia Grisi -- Mario -- Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache -- The nightingales. Henriette Sontag -- Jenny Lind -- Adelina Patti -- The mezzo minority. Benedetta Pisaroni -- Pauline Viardot -- Marietta Alboni -- The new German singer. Ludwig Schnorr -- Lilli Lehmann -- Some gentlemen of the last Golden Age. -- Victor Maurel -- Francesco Tamagno -- Jean de Reszke -- Some ladies of the last Golden Age. Lillian Nordica -- Nellie Melba -- Marcella Sembrich and Emma Eames -- Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- An Italianate afterglow. Titta Ruffo -- Luisa Tetrazzini and Amelita Galli-Curci -- Enrico Caruso -- Rosa Ponselle -- The singing actresses. Emma Calve -- Mary Garden -- Geraldine Farrar -- Some gentlemen who stand apart. Feodor Chaliapin -- John McCormack -- Richard Tauber -- Lawrence Tibbett -- And two ladies. Marian Anderson -- Kirsten Flagstad -- Cadenza -- Coda -- Glossary -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Bibliography -- About the author.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The singer and setting -- The Castrati -- Some early virtuosos. Baldassare Ferri -- Siface (Giovanni Francesco Grossi) -- Nicolino (Nicolo Grimaldi) -- Virtuosos of the first Golden Age. Antonio Pistocchi -- Antonio Bernacchi -- Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) -- Giovanni Carestini -- Niccolo Porpora -- Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) -- Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano) -- Gaetano Guadagni -- The last full flower. Gasparo Pacchierotti -- Luigi Marchesi -- Girolamo Crescentini -- Giovanni-Battista -- Velluti -- Some early prima donnas. Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni -- Vittoria Tesi -- Mara -- The end of the era. Brigitta Banti -- Mrs. Billington -- Angelica Catalani -- Epilogue for basses and tenors. Giuseppe Boschi and Antonio Montagnana -- Ludwig Fischer -- Annibale Pio Fabri -- Anton Raaff -- Manuel Garcia -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini -- A new kind of prima donna. Giuditta Pasta -- Maria Malibran -- Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient -- A new kind of tenor. Domenico Donzelli -- ".
- catalog title "The great singers : from Jenny Lind to Callas and Pavarotti / Henry Pleasants.".
- catalog type "text".