Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers by William Murray
Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
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William Murray
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Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers

William Murray

273 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction music informative medium-paced
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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 o...

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