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Reading List
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Singers of Italian
Opera: The history of a profession. John Russell.
Cambridge University Press. 1995. Available in the Santa Fe Opera Shop
or buy
now at Amazon.com.
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The Chronicle of
Opera. Michael Raeburn. Thames and Hudson. 1998. A big book
with wonderful anecdotes and an invaluable time-line. Buy now at the
Santa Fe Opera Shop or at
Amazon.com.
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Puccini: A Biography. Mary
Jane Phillips-Matz. Northeastern University Press. 2002. Buy
Puccini now at Amazon.com.
She has also written a wonderful biography of Verdi. Buy
Verdi now at Amazon.com.
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Puccini: His Life
and Works. Julian Budden. Oxford University Press.
2002. Buy
now at Amazon.com.
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Rossini: A Life. Gaia
Servadio. Carroll & Graf. 2003. She uncovered
previously unknown letters during her research and offers an new perspective
on why he “laid down his pen” at such an early age. Buy
now at Amazon.com.
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The Verdi-Boito
Correspondence. Marcello Conati (editor). William
Weaver (translator). University of Chicago Press. 1994. Illuminates
the sometimes tangled relationship between Verdi and Boito, librettist
of Otello, and the creation of Verdi’s masterpiece, Otello. Buy
now at Amazon.com.
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Cry to Heaven. Anne
Rice. Knopf. Reprint 1993. A carefully researched and fascinating historical
novel set in the world of the Eighteenth-century
castrati. Buy
now at Amazon.com.
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