When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught - Softcover

David W. Barber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0920151345 ISBN 13: 9780920151341

Publisher: Sound And Vision, 2000

Synopsis

In the 10 years since its first publication, When the Fat Lady Sings has sold more than 60,000 copies worldwide. Now, to celebrate a decade of delighting opera fans and foes alike, musical historian and humorist David Barber has prepared a special revised and expanded edition of his hilarious bestselling history of opera. Chapters such as Serious Buffoonery, Teutonic Tunesmiths and, of course, Italian Sausage Machines display Barber's rapier wit and knack for knowing fascinating, if sometimes useless, information about music, musicians and the offbeat world they live in. This expanded edition includes new material ranging from Strauss to ragtime, opera to the Tenor Menace. From Italian castrati to German Ring-bearers, from Handel's fights with rival sopranos to Puccini's nicotine habit, the author of Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Tenors, Tantrums and Trills delivers a funny yet informative, irreverent yet affectionate history of serious music's most serious art form as only he can - and as only he would dare to do.

About this title

About the Author:

David Barber is a journalist, author, composer and performer who lives and works in Toronto.

Dave Donald works as an art director for a Toronto-based national magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sound And Vision
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0920151345
• ISBN 13: 9780920151341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Dave Donald