Fair Ophelia
Subtitle: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780521244213
Subjects: Music; Acting; Berlioz, Harriet Smithson; Music / History & Criticism; Actors; 1800-1854; Berlioz, Harriet Smithson,; Biography; Great Britain
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.