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MATHEOPOULOS, HELENA: : PLACIDO DOMINGO - My Operatic Roles

LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN AND COMPANY,2000.

ISBN 0316643769.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,silvered background with subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, with mauve+white lettering; colour photographic rear panel with list of operas the subject appears in; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xlvipp+3-290pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,author's note, acknowledgements,a glossary,author's introduction,62 sections/chapters on Placido's individual roles in opera,32pp of b/w+colour biographical,operatic stage photographs; 16pp each of b/w+colour photographs,between pp50/1 (b/w) and pp194/5 (colour) respectively,an appendix and discography.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with subject's b/w portrait photograph to it's reverse,and the title page. This is a unique book,not only among the existing books about Placido Domingo (see my book ID rja482814 - Domingo's autobiography) but among opera books in general.It is a first-hand account by one of the greatest artists in operatic history of his view of every one of of the major roles in his amazing repertoire of 114 parts - 81 on stage and the rest in concert or on disc.Domingo is both a consummate actor whose interpretations could stand as straight theatre - 'The bastard acts it every bit as well as I do and has to sing on top,' remarked the late Lord Olivier after seeing his Othello (see my book ID rja30148 - for Olivier's SIGNED autobiography, which is also SIGNED by John Gielgud!) - and a consummate musician whose gift for phrasing according to Sir Georg Solti 'borders on the miraculous'. Want more GIELGUD-related titles? For similar and other available titles use keywords q52_JOHN GIELGUD - or please search my BIOGRAPHY,GENERAL and SIGNED catalogues. When one examines the history of opera in the past hundred years,two giants stand out as having shaped and decisively influenced the role and position of the tenor: Enrico Caruso,who became a household name and who established himself as a formidable rival to the prima donna in the first quarter of the 20thC,and Placido Domingo who more than earned the accolade 'the Great Domingo' in its last.Similarly,two names instantly leap to mind as having invested opera with a degree of musico-dramatic unity without which it could not have thrived in an age of cinematic and televisual standards of dramatic credibility: Maria Callas and Placido Domingo.In populist terms,if Luciano Pavarotti is,as his recording company has labelled him,the King of the High Cs,then Domingo is undoubtedly the King of Opera. Now nearly sixty years old (then 2000),Placido Domingo continus to undertake mammoth new roles and also to sound fresher than many of his much younger colleagues in the same performances.The constant,obsessive need for self-renewal causes him to stretch and broaden his artistic and musical horizons.'MY OPERATIC ROLES' is Placido Domingo'a artistic testimony for singers and opera lovers of today and the future. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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