Backstage at the opera
By: text by Joan Chatfield-Taylor ; photographs by Ira Nowinski.
Contributors: Nowinski, Ira.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: San Francisco Opera.
Description: This is a glimpse backstage into one of the world's great opera houses: San Francisco Opera House. It is also and insider's look at the process of creating what is probably the world's most complicated art form. Behind each superstar on stage is a support staff of hundreds, even thousands of people, most of whom are highly specialized. In following the process, the authors watched productions grow from telephone negotiations through intensive rehearslas into the full-scale extravaganza the audience sees. --from Preface.
Notes: Includes index.