Timing is Everything: A Life Backstage at the Opera

Moffatt Oxenbould

ISBN 10: 0733317138 / ISBN 13: 9780733317132

Published by ABC Books, Sydney, 2005

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A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Pp. xvi, 728.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1779712741057

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Timing is Everything: A Life Backstage at the Opera
• Publisher: ABC Books, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0733317138
• ISBN 13: 9780733317132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 16.4W x 23.9H x 4.9D centimeters 16.4 centimeters width by 23.9 centimeters height by 4.9 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

Moffatt Oxenbould has lived and breathed opera for more than forty years. And from the first, his career has been linked with what would eventually become Australia's national opera company. From stage manager to artistic director, Oxenbould's career has been an outstanding one, growing in tandem with the Opera as it developed into the prestigious and renowned company it is today. Genial, deeply knowledgeable and thoroughly entertaining, Moffat Oxenbould's memoirs are filled with riveting backstage stories of divas and disasters, outback tours and stunning triumphs, of all the international and local stars and productions for which the Opera is justly renowned, as well as the significant struggles for survival that the company has faced in the last five decades. Having worked with everyone from Pavarotti to Sutherland, Luhrmann to Kosky, David Hobson to Simone Young, Oxenbould's story is fascinating both in its retelling of a life spent backstage and as the story of the life of an opera company. timing Is Everything is essential reading for anyone with a drop of greasepaint in their blood and a song in their heart.