Nellie Melba

Melodies and Memories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A memoir of her rise to fame by one of the world's most famous sopranos, Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781108038775
• ISBN-10: 1108038778
• Artikelnr.: 34448976

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early days in Australia
2. Study in Paris
3. My first opera
4. My debuts in London and Paris
5. London and Windsor
6. Merry jests - Lord and Lady Lytton
7. Tosti - Landon Ronald
8. St. Petersburg - Palermo - Nice
9. Terror and triumph - King Oscar
10. New York - King Edward VII
11. Further American experiences
12. London again
13. My adventures in California
14. In Germany and Austria
15. Practical jokes
16. Monte Carlo
17. Australia again - Dame Rumour
18. New Zealand (a poetic interlude)
19. Alfred de Rothschild and others
20. Peche Melba - Oscar Hammerstein
21. Singing for Hammerstein - singing for gramophones - proposals
22. Touring the back-blocks
23. Lord Mount Stephen - Lord Northcliffe - Lord Sandwich
24. The war
25. Charlie Chaplin
26. Post-war London - royalties - India
27. My country and my art
28. Conclusion
Index.