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Confessions of an Opera Singer [Illustrated]

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This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSI THE WAY IT ALL HAPPENEDII A STRUGGLE AND A SOLUTIONIII PARIS AT LASTIV PENSION PERSONALITIESV OPERATIC FRANCE VERSUS OPERATIC GERMANYVI PREPARING RÔLES IN BERLINVII MY FIRST OPERATIC CONTRACT SIGNEDVIII MY ONE LONE IMPROPOSITIONIX THE MAKINGS OF A SMALL MUNICIPAL OPERA HOUSEX MY DÉBUT AND BREAKING INTO HARNESSXI SOME STAGE DELIGHTSXII MISPLACED MOISTURE AND THE STORY OF A COURT-LADYXIII HUMAN PASSIONS AND SMALLPOXXIV DISCOURAGEMENTS THAT LED TO A COURT THEATREXV SALARIES AND A TENOR'S GENIUSXVI THE ART OF MARIE MUELLEXVII THE NON-MILITARY SIDE OF A GERMAN OFFICER'S LIFEXVIII GEESE AND GUESTSXIX RUSSIANS, COMMON AND PREFERREDXX THE GRANDMOTHERS' BALLETXXI STAGE FASHIONS AND THE GLORY OF COLOURXXII ROYAL HUMOURXXIII COVENT GARDEN AND — AMERICAREPERTOIREAbout the Author'KATHLEEN HOWARD (1884 - 1956) was a Canadian-born opera singer (mezzo-soprano), magazine editor and US film character actress from the mid-1930s through the 1940s. She spent her childhood in Buffalo, NY and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery there.She created the role of Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. She was also particularly memorable as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in a film that many historians consider to be his best and funniest, It's a Gift (1934); she additionally appeared in two other films of W.C. Fields: You're Telling Me! (1934) and Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) (playing his wife for a second time in the latter).She was part of the repertory system in the opera houses of Metz and Darmstadt previous to World War I. She told of her life as an opera singer in an autobiography, Confessions of an Opera Singer (Knopf 1918).' -- Wikipeda

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