On stage, off stage
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Régine Crespin ; translated by G.S. Bourdain.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Crespin, Régine.; Sopranos (Singers) -- Biography.
Description: France's most renowned classical singer shares reminiscences about her personal life and illustrious career in this charming memoir. With candor, affection, and humor, Regine Crespin reflects on her family, friends, and colleagues, her love affairs, and, most of all, the opera.

Populated with such figures as Herbert von Karajan, Lotte Lehmann, Jon Vickers, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Maria Callas, this engaging autobiography offers a vivid and fascinating glimpse into the world of opera. It is also the inviting story of a remarkable woman who was a diva on the stage but never a prima donna in real life.
Notes: Discography: p. [275]-279.
Pt. 1 is a rev. and expanded version of previous publication: La vie et l'amour d'une femme. Paris : Fayard, 1982.
Includes index.