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The Opera Quarterly 21.2 (2005) 410-411



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1. Andrea Bocelli. From Andrea Bocelli, The Music of Silence: A Memoir (New York: HarperEntertainment, 1999), pp. 2-3.

2. Hugues Cuénod. From Franäois Hudry, Hugues Cuénod: With a Nimble Voice (Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1998), p. 70.

3. John McCormack. From Gordon T. Ledbetter, The Great Irish Tenor (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977), p. 145.

4. Regina Resnik. From Mary Jane Matz, Opera Stars in the Sun: Intimate Glimpses of Metropolitan Personalities (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1955), p. 33.

5. Enrico Caruso. From Rose Heylbut and Aimé Gerber, Backstage at the Opera (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1937), p. 177.

6. Luigi Lablache. From Henry C. Lahee, Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday (Boston: L. C. Page, 1898), p. 69.

7. Marie Tempest. From Henry T. Finck, Musical Laughs (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1924), p. 243.

8. Marie Wilt. From Mary Lawton, Schumann-Heink: The Last of the Titans (New York: Macmillan, 1928), p. 234.

9. Feodor Chaliapin. From Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapine [sic], Pages from My Life: An Autobiography (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927), p. 293.

10. Kirsten Flagstad. From Charles O'Connell, The Other Side of the Record (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), pp. 149-50.

11. Richard Lewis. From Noel Ross-Russell, There Will I Sing: The Making of a Tenor (London: Open Gate Press, 1996), p. 92.

12. Carlo Bergonzi. From Tenors in Opera (London: Opera Magazine, 2003), pp. 7-8.

13. John Brecknock. From John L. Brecknock and John Kennedy Melling, Scaling the High Cs: The Musical Life of Tenor John L. Brecknock (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996), p. 44.

14. Risë Stevens. From Alan Wagner, Prima Donnas and Other Wild Beasts (Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, 1961), p. 130.

15. Franco Corelli. From Bocelli, The Music of Silence, p. 187.

16. Salvatore Baccaloni. From Matz, Opera Stars in the Sun, p. 98.

17. Ernestine Schumann-Heink. From Heylbut and Gerber, Backstage at the Opera, pp. 142-43.

18. Antonio Tamburini. From Lahee, Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday, pp. 66-67.

19. Matilda Brandt. From Lawton, Schumann-Heink, pp. 107-8.

20. Lauritz Melchior. From O'Connell, The Other Side of the Record, p. 88.

21. Gaetano Caffarelli. From Jürgen Kesting, Luciano Pavarotti: The Myth of the Tenor (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991), p.24. [End Page 410]

22. Mary Garden. From Mary Garden and Louis Biancolli, Mary Garden's Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), p. 173.

23. Emma Albani. From Emma Albani, Forty Years of Song (New York: Arno Press, 1977), pp. 225-26.

24. Lesley Garrett. From Lesley Garrett, Notes from a Small Soprano (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000), pp. 131-32.

25. Birgit Nilsson. From Sopranos in Opera: Profiles of Fifteen Great Sopranos (London: Opera Magazine, 2002), p. 42.

26. Tito Schipa. From Helena Matheopoulos, The Great Tenors: From Caruso to the Present (New York: St. Martin's, 1999), p. 28.

27. Lotte Lehmann. From Lotte Lehmann, Midway in My Song (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), p. 12.

28. Joan Sutherland. From Kesting, Luciano Pavarotti, pp. 113-14.



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