TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walsh,Michael
TI  - So when does the fat lady sing?: Questions and answers about life, sex, love, and - oh yes - opera 
SN  - 9781574671629 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Milwaukee
PB  - Amadeus Press
KW  - Opera
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Music
KW  - eflch
N1  - Paperback
N2  - 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
ER  -