Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils
Author(s): Roger Neill
Who was Mathilde Marchesi? How did she become a bywordinternationally for vocal excellence and operatic success? Whatwas her formula? And how did she produce prima donnas onsuch a consistent basis? Neill traces Marchesi's extraordinarycareer from Vienna to Paris and introduces an array ofremarkable characters - including Felix Mendelssohn, FranzLiszt and Dame Nellie Melba - and the successful singingmethod that is her legacy.
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Roger Neill was chairman of Endymion Ensemble for a decade and is secretary of the Historic Singers Trust. Neill began his working life as a professional rock musician, then worked for ten years with ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi. He lived and worked in Sydney in the 1980s, where he was chairman of the Lintas ad agency. He is currently based in London and is the managing partner of the innovation consultancy, Per Diem.
General Fields
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- : NewSouth Publishing
- : NewSouth Publishing
- : 0.884505
- : October 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : Australia
- : October 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roger Neill
- : Hardback
- : 782.67092
- : 480
- : 33 illustrations