Rosa ponselle a centenary biography
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Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography (Opera Biographies (Amadeus)) (Opera Biography) - Hardcover
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Rosa Ponselle's place as one of the century's great singers was destined from the moment of her debut, opposite Enrico Caruso, in the Metropolitan musikdrama premiere of La forza del destino. For the next two decades, her voice of unparalleled beauty and power continued to mesmerize audiences. Even today, her recordings keep her influence alive in the Italian repertory. Ponselle's path from Meriden, Connecticut, through her apprenticeship on the vaudeville circuit with her sister Carmela to acclaim on the stage of the Met is one of opera's great romantic stories. The author of this hundraårsdag biography, James A. Drake, began researching that story in collaboration with Ponselle herself for their 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 biograp
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Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography
Rosa Ponselle's place as one of the century's great singers was destined from the moment of her debut, opposite Enrico Caruso, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of La forza del destino. For the next two decades, her voice of unparalleled beauty and power continued to mesmerize audiences. Even today, her recordings keep her influence alive in the Italian repertory. Ponselle's path from Meriden, Connecticut, through her apprenticeship on the vaudeville circuit with 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 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, suppor
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Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography
by James A. Drake
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Amadeus Press
James A. Drake's new homage to America's greatest soprano - Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography - is published on the th anniversary of Rosa Ponselle's birth. Thanks to detailed research and many interviews with people who knew Ponselle, Drake adds a great deal of information to the material published in his Ponselle, A Singer's Life. A Centenary Biography is a chronological reconstruction of Ponselle's life through quotations from interviews with the soprano and her associates. Each chapter includes a summary of sources and the author's summary.
Rosa Ponselle was born on January 22, inMeriden, Conneticut to Italian immigrants. Her musical talent was evident early, and at 19 she joined her sister Carmela on the vaudeville stage. She was "discovered" at an audition and