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Ira Glackens

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Description:Lillian Nordica sang before presidents, crowned head and working men with equal aplomb. She was known as a leader of fashion in the full sense of the word. Her excellent vocal training made it possible for her to leap ahead to the upsurge of popularity of the Wagnerian music drama.Her fabulous career paralleled the rise of her own country's prestige and power throughout the world, and her performance as Elsa in Cosima Wagner's first production of Lohengrin at Bayreuth was a high water mark in the three magnificent decades known as The Golden Age of Opera.Her personal life was no less exciting. Widowed under mysterious circumstances, divorced from another singer, and then wooed by a man who came bearing emeralds, she also endorsed woman suffrage and equal education. Her death came early and tragic as the result of a shipwreck in the South Seas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yankee Diva: Lillian Nordica and the Golden Days of Opera. To get started finding Yankee Diva: Lillian Nordica and the Golden Days of Opera, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 359

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Coleridge Press

Release: 1963

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Description: Lillian Nordica sang before presidents, crowned head and working men with equal aplomb. She was known as a leader of fashion in the full sense of the word. Her excellent vocal training made it possible for her to leap ahead to the upsurge of popularity of the Wagnerian music drama.Her fabulous career paralleled the rise of her own country's prestige and power throughout the world, and her performance as Elsa in Cosima Wagner's first production of Lohengrin at Bayreuth was a high water mark in the three magnificent decades known as The Golden Age of Opera.Her personal life was no less exciting. Widowed under mysterious circumstances, divorced from another singer, and then wooed by a man who came bearing emeralds, she also endorsed woman suffrage and equal education. Her death came early and tragic as the result of a shipwreck in the South Seas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yankee Diva: Lillian Nordica and the Golden Days of Opera. To get started finding Yankee Diva: Lillian Nordica and the Golden Days of Opera, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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