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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Singers was destined from the mo-ment of her 1918 debut opposite Enrico Caruso in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of La forza del destino. For the next two decades her voice of unparalleled beauty and power continued to mes-merize audiences. Even today her recordings keep her influence alive in the Italian repertory. “No matter how many years may pass” Luciano Pavarotti has said “Rosa Ponselle will always be a ‘modern’ soprano. Like Caruso among tenors she set the standards for everyone in the future.” Ponselle’s path from Meriden Connecticut through her apprenticeship on the vaudeville circuit with her sister Carmela to acclaim on the stage of the Met is one of opera’s great romantic stories. The author of this centenary biography James A. Drake began researching that story in collaboration with Ponselle herself for their 1982 book Ponselle: A Singer’s Life. The present work not only collects many of the interviews with Ponselle that provided the raw material for the carlier biography but also includes interviews with friends colleagues and associates that sup-plement suppon and sometimes contradict Jur own recollections. In addition the author has atsunized de deumentary record for contem porary reports of duse events. (MP)