Opera Antics and Anecdotes

Tanner, Stephen

ISBN 10: 092015140X / ISBN 13: 9780920151402

Published by Sound And Vision, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opera Antics and Anecdotes
• Publisher: Sound And Vision
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 092015140X
• ISBN 13: 9780920151402
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Taccola, Umberto
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

For the nutty world of opera backstage Opera Antics and Anecdotes describes intimate, rib-tickling glimpses of the opera profession seen through the prism of humor.

These comical stories collected by the author directly from composers, conductors, superstar singers and stagehands immortalize some of the real-life blunders, bloopers, pranks, pratfalls, idiocies and sabotage in the highbrow, cutthroat art form that is opera.

Readers will enjoy fabulous samples of vanity, 'bitchcraft' and shouts across the footlights. It is remarkable how many critics, audience twits and backstage bigwigs adore opera yet can't tell their brass from their oboe.

About the Author

Stephen Tanner is a humorist, writer, lecturer and retired American Foreign Service Officer with over 20 years' experience working overseas.

Umberto Tąccola is a versatile graphic artist, painter, sculptor, poet, essayist and TV and stage director. He lives in his native Italy.