Biography & True Stories
Heroes and Lovers
by Jon Elsby
Description
What is a tenor? What makes some tenors great? Why are tenors so rare? Heroes and Lovers suggests answers to these questions and offers critical essays on twenty-six tenors and shorter assessments of thirty-four others. The tenors covered range from Francesco Tamagno, the first Otello, and Fernando de Lucia, both of whom recorded in the early years of the twentieth century, to Joseph Calleja and Rolando Villazón today. The book also comprises an introductory essay and separate essays on the early tenors of the recorded era, the popular tenors, the British tenors, and the specialist categories of Mozart tenors and Heldentenors.
This is a personal selection and it will please, stimulate, provoke, and infuriate in equal measure.
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Author Biography
Jon Elsby’s spiritual and intellectual journey has been from Protestantism to atheism, and finally to Catholicism. He writes extensively on Catholic literature and Catholic literary figures, and generally on literary and cultural matters.
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Copyright (c) 2019, Jon Elsby
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher CentreHouse Press
- Publication Date May 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781902086224
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 11.99 GBP
- Pages282
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions198x129 mm
