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Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1979
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- Great Operatic Disasters
- Author
- Hugh Vickers
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312346336
- ISBN 13
- 9780312346331
- Illustrator
- Michael Ffolkes
To its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Great Operatic Disasters records some of the most memorable calamities from opera houses around the world. Most of them are true, some have been embroidered over the years, and a few, well, se non e vero, e ben trovato.
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