So when does the fat lady sing? : Questions and answers about life, sex, love, and - oh yes - opera / Michael Walsh.
Publication details: Milwaukee : Amadeus Press : 2007.Edition: Illustrated edDescription: 272 p. : 30 b&w, photo., . ; 23x15x1 cmISBN:- 9781574671629 (pbk.) :
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Think opera is all about starving artists, vengeful goddesses, randy noblemen, and adulterous lovers? Think Again! This work takes readers on a wise and witty tour through 400 years of operatic history and culture that can whet their appetites for the opera. It also poses irreverent and impertinent questions designed to inspire, and entertain. Think opera is all about starving artists, vengeful goddesses, randy noblemen, and adulterous lovers? Think Again!In "So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?" Former "Time" magazine music critic Michael Walsh takes readers on a wise and witty tour through 400 years of operatic history and culture that will whet their appetites for all things opera.Along the way Walsh poses irreverent and impertinent questions designed not to test the knowledge, but to inspire, and most of all, entertain.
Michael Walsh, listed in the International Who's Who in Music, is an award-winning writer and musician. His most recent novel won the 2004 American Book Award for Fiction. He is also the founding music critic of Entertainment Weekly.
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