You might also like

Availability alert

More about Playing My Part

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 63 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Frida Leider, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the pre-war period, has a permanent place in operatic history. In this, her own memoirs, Leider recreates the fascinating operatic world of her day and her association with Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann, Maria Jeritza, Elisabeth Schumann, Erich Kleiber, as well as many other great musical figures of the twentieth century. Leider's story embraces her entire career from her childhood in Berlin at the turn of the century, through her apprentice years in the provincial German opera houses to her years of international triumph when she was acclaimed at Covent Garden, Bayreuth, the Berlin State Opera and the Met. Her account of musical life in Nazi Germany adds another dimension to an autobiography which, by virtue of its charm and warmth, is already far removed from more conventional operatic memoirs.

Book details

Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: arts & entertainment

• Full title: Playing My Part
• Author: Frida Leider
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217
• EAN: 9780714543802
• ISBN: 0714543802
• ID: 04646023
• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd.
• Weight: 257 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 128 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. May 2012

Trending among others

---

---

---