Fair Ophelia
Subtitle: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521545808
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual actors & performers; Music; Music/Songbooks; General; Music / General; Music / History & Criticism
First sentence: Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz was present, fell in love with the Shakespearean image, and pursued it in his life and in his music.