Primary Format: Cloth | |
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ISBN: | 9781611689129 |
Published: | 09/04/2018 |
Pages: | 248 |
Size: | 6 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | Music Biography and Letters |
Angela Gheorghiu: A Life for Art
Angela Gheorghiu
Cloth: $35.00E-book: $29.99
Gheorghiu doesn’t disappoint with her story of becoming a world-class opera star.
Publisher's Weekly
Gheorghiu doesn’t disappoint with her story of becoming a world-class opera star.
—Publishers Weekly
An instant blaze of vitality, talent, and beauty-like lightning! And she has extraordinary professionalism. You cannot reach that position that is so high unless you work hard. She started with a wonderful voice, of course, but the talent has to be developed by discipline and intelligence, and she has that. This is why-and I must say this with respect to all the other singers-she is unique today. There is one Angela Gheorghiu.
—Franco Zeffirelli
[Hers] is a voice that acts by itself, and as well as being a fine stage actress there is a special performing quality in her voice. Sometimes you hear a beautiful voice but you don’t feel the performer in it. In Angela’s voice you hear the performing actress.
—Placido Domingo
Angela is elegant, she has fire, she has a wonderful voice-what more could you possibly want from a singer!
—Grace Bumbry
I first heard Angela in the autumn of 1993 when she came to the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels to sing Micaëla in Carmen. . . . The beauty of the voice, and not only the beauty but the individuality, just sent people into raptures.
—Sir Antonio Pappan
There will doubtless be subsequent books on Gheorghiu, without her involvement or imprimatur. Until then, this provides a lot of worthwhile material. Straight from the diva's mouth.
—Opera
ANGELA GHEORGHIU is a world-renowned Romanian soprano. JON TOLANSKY is a writer, lecturer, and documentarian working in the world of opera.