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Article: Books: The singing is the easy bit Charles Osborne enjoys a tenor's discussion of the realities of performing and producing opera
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 15, 1996
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The Joy of Opera
by Nigel Douglas
Andre Deutsch, pounds 20
BOOKS by opera singers are usually memoirs, and more often than
not produced with the aid of ghost writers. Nigel Douglas, however,
is a singer who, having already written two highly enjoyable books
about famous singers of the past, has now turned his attention to
virtually every aspect of opera.
Drawing on his experiences in the course of a long and successful
career in opera and operetta, he has produced a fascinating volume
which deals with a variety of topics, among them the behaviour of
performers on- and off-stage, the relationship of words to music,
the joys and sorrows of an opera singer's life, and the importance
of drink to ...