Great Operatic Disasters

Great Operatic Disasters
Author: Hugh Vickers
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1985-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780312346348


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To its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Great Operatic Disasters records some of the most memorable calamities from opera houses around the world. Most of them are true, some have been embroidered over the years, and a few, well, se non e vero, e ben trovato.


Great Operatic Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Hugh Vickers
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-10-15 - Publisher: Macmillan

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To its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Gr
Even Greater Operatic Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 80
Authors: Hugh Vickers
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-01-01 - Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press

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Offers a second witty anthology of ridiculous operatic disasters in these anecdotes of musical malice, mayhem, and the misbehavior of stage machinery, scenery,
Great Planning Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Peter Hall
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-03-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Wide-ranging, significant, and readable...It will earn respect in non-academics as well as academic circles. A first-rate job."—Lloyd Rodwin
Even Greater Operatic Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Hugh Vickers
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher:

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Great Operas
Language: en
Pages: 904
Authors: Michael Steen
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: Icon Books

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