ISBN: 9781880909751

As an American woman who attained the highest rank in her chosen field, she is an example of what can be accomplished through a combination of natural talent and the will to succeed. Rise… Mehr…

As an American woman who attained the highest rank in her chosen field, she is an example of what can be accomplished through a combination of natural talent and the will to succeed. Rise's career is unique in that it encompassed opera, recordings, radio, films, television, academic, and arts administration. She was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera for twenty-three seasons. In the 1940s she had her own radio show, she appeared in a classic film. In the 1950s she was a popular guest on television, her recordings sold in the thousands. The complete Carmen has been in print for over fifty years, the Mannes School of Music survived a bleak period in the 1960s because of her, the Metropolitan Opera National Company was launched under her aegis, she is now a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera. This biography will attempt to show in greater detail a career that extended from Brooklyn to Prague, from Canada to South America, from parts of America where a lied or aria had never been heard to the centers of culture, Paris and Milan. Written in her tenth decade, it objectively reflects on a life well managed. Compared to Callas, Rise has lived a long life and has escaped notoriety. Rise Stevens: A Life in Music [With CD] Pennino, John, Baskerville Publishers<

2006, ISBN: 1880909758

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[EAN: 9781880909751], Fine, [PU: Baskerville Publishers, Fort Worth, TX], BIOGRAPHY/RISE STEVENS/1913/SINGERS/UNITED STATES/MEZZO SOPRANO/MUSIC/OPERA/NEW YORK/STAGE/PERFORMER/ENTERTAINER/… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781880909751], Fine, [PU: Baskerville Publishers, Fort Worth, TX], BIOGRAPHY/RISE STEVENS/1913/SINGERS/UNITED STATES/MEZZO SOPRANO/MUSIC/OPERA/NEW YORK/STAGE/PERFORMER/ENTERTAINER/CARMEN/METROPOLITAN OPERA/TELEVISION, This work is the biography of Rise Stevens, the great opera star. It takes the reader from her humble beginnings in New York to her successful rise to perform on the greatest stages all over the world. She ascended to the level of legendary performers in "Carmen." The book contains photographs, illustrations, notes, chronology, and a discography. This copy is clean and solid. INCLUDES CD.<