Snakes and ladders
Subtitle: glimpses of India
By: Gita Mehta.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: N.A. Talese
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: India -- Description and travel.
Description: In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world. In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own.

Included are Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Lawrence Tibbett, and a galaxy of others whose stories are as dramatic and compelling as the roles they sang on stage.