The greatsingers
Subtitle: from Jenny Lind to Callas and Pavarotti
By: Henry Pleasants.
Edition: Rev. and updated.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Singers.
Description: Here are the personalities and performances, the lives and the art of the great singers of all time, from the dawn of operatic singing in the 1600s through the golden ages of bel canto and grand opera to the present opera scene. More than 130 magnificently reproduced paintings, photographs, prints and caricatures blend with the text to bring these legendary singers back to vibrant life. - Back cover.
Notes: "A Fireside book."

Includes index.

Bibliography, p. 373-377.