Notes from a Low Singer, by Michael LANGDON

Michael Langdon; Richard Fawkes

ISBN 10: 0862031060 / ISBN 13: 9780862031060

Published by Julia Macrae, 1982

About this Item

1982 FIRST EDITION hardcover with dust jacket. Bright, unmarked pages and tight binding. jacket is shelf-rubbed, but shows no rips or creases. NOT an ex-library copy; not a remainder. Still retains original cover price on front jacket flap. Overall a very good, tight, sturdy First Edition copy. Memoirs of the internationally famed bass opera singer. Photo-illustrated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from a Low Singer, by Michael LANGDON
• Publisher: Julia Macrae
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0862031060
• ISBN 13: 9780862031060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Michael Langdon, the internationally known bass, grew up as a singer during the great post-war period at Covent Garden, under the direction of Sir David Webster, with conductors such as Beecham, Kubelik, Giulini and Solti. Notes from a Low Singer not only chronicles a career, but also gives a real feeling for the life of a singer, with its hard work, rewards, and disappointments. Few people realize how lonely and disruptive it can be to travel the world singing in unfamiliar opera houses with unfamiliar colleagues; it is a life which does indeed have its glamorous side, but it also has its much less well-known and far from glamorous aspects, which Michael Langdon puts into realistic and often wildly humorous perspective. He is expecially interesting on the long, slow, meticulous study he undertook before performing his most famous role, Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, and of how that first assumption changed over the years. From front flap of dust jacket.