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...performers are sent to melt hearts and open wallets at the local Lions Club, or to strut and sing their stuff in front of thousands of noisily skeptical fans before the start of a game at the Astrodome. "We'll get in any door we can," says Jane Weaver, 33, TOT managing director. "We have to be flexible enough to play in a high school gym as well as a 2,000-seat auditorium." That frequently exercised adaptability, says Baritone Robert Galbraith, one of TOT'S standout voices, is "the wonderful thing about us. We can take opera...
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel The Golden Century of Italian Opera, William Weaver ∙The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
...GOLDEN CENTURY OF ITALIAN OPERA by William Weaver Thames & Hudson; 256 pages...
That is provided by William Weaver's The Golden Century of Italian Opera, a lavishly illustrated account of the glorious years from 1815 to the mid-1920s, from The Barber of Seville to Turandot. "All we contemporary composers, without exception, are so many pygmies beside this great master," Bellini said of Rossini. But he was wrong. Geniuses followed each other like monarchs in a royal procession: Bellini himself, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Opera lovers became so accustomed to dazzling new works that they thought the parade would never end, that the extraordinary had become the usual...
...great composers were not exactly marble statues, and Weaver's book is full of anecdotes and gossipy snippets...