Adventures In the Scream Trade: Scenes from an Operatic Life
Published on 9. July 2012
200 pages
978-0-9851141-9-0 (ISBN)
Description
For over two decades Charles Long thrilled opera audiences, performing at some of America's and the world's most famous venues, and singing alongside some of its greatest stars. In his insightful, frank and humorous new memoir, Long recounts many of those experiences. In the process he sheds light into a world many of us respect, admire and love, but which few of us have ever encountered in such intimate detail.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Prelude to a Scream
- Andante Con Moto
- Child Musician
- The Language of Music
- The Power of Song
- Music School, an Experiment in Frustration
- Summer Stock
- Cantabile
- New York
- La Voce
- Il Padrone
- Church Jobs
- Baritone Buddy
- Early New York City Opera
- Hong Kong
- Back on Track
- Italian Restaurants
- Allegro Con Brio
- My First AGMA Contract
- It's Only Rigoletto
- Managements
- Louise
- San Francisco
- Houston
- Auditions: Being Your Own Judge
- NYCO Encore
- Menotti and Barber
- The Spoleto Festivals
- Holland
- Accelerando
- When Opportunities Knock
- It's Always Rigoletto
- Sing, Herman! Sing!
- Mental Preparation
- Amsterdam versus Kennedy Center
- The Smell of the Greasepaint
- Under the Gun
- The Conductor, Il Primo Uomo
- Molto Vivace
- Study, Study, Study
- Riding the Crest
- Relationships: A Rocky Road
- Manon Lescaut in Tulsa
- Los Angeles
- Galvani and Cincy and Sills, Oh My!
- The Pearl Fishers in Milwaukee
- Pagliacci in Beautiful Miami
- And I Puritani at NYCO
- Più Grave
- The Glory of Victory, the Agony of Defeat
- Postlude to a Scream: Perdition
- Epilogue
- The Road Taken
- Postscript
- GLOSSARY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
