Snakes and ladders

Description

In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world. In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own. Included are Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Lawrence Tibbett, and a galaxy of others whose stories are as dramatic and compelling as the roles they sang on stage.

First Sentence

It was three o'clock in the morning and my mother was still dancing at the Roshanara Club in Delhi when her labor pains began.

Excerpt

It was three o'clock in the morning and my mother was still dancing at the Roshanara Club in Delhi when her labor pains began.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Snakes and ladders: glimpses of IndiaN.A. Talese1997-01-01
• Snakes and laddersSecker & Warburg1997-01-01
• Snakes and LaddersPaperbackVintage1997-04-01
• Snakes and LaddersPenguin Random House1998-01-01
• Snakes and LaddersPenguin Random House1998-01-01
• Snakes and laddersAnchor Books/Doubleday1998-01-01