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Biografien historischer Persönlichkeiten aus Kanada

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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle Frontier

Autor: Richmond P. Hobson

Taschenbuch, 12.05.2015

Celebrating Special Year 1964 Book: The Year You Wear Born or Married in 1964, Time Traveling to 1964, Explore Historical Events Through Nostalgic Photographs, Relaxing Activities, Flashback to 1964

Autor: Wisdom Zones

Gebundene Ausgabe, 04.01.2024

The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

Autor: Susan Ronald

Taschenbuch, 24.06.2008

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition)

Autor: Mari Sandoz

Taschenbuch, 01.02.1992

Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier: A True Account of Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier

Autor: Richmond P. Hobson

Taschenbuch, 14.04.2015

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

Archie Fire Lame Deer, Richard Erdoes

Gebundene Ausgabe

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

Nega Mezlekia

Gebundene Ausgabe

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic

Taschenbuch

Excessive Force: Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing

Alok Mukherjee, Tim Harper

Taschenbuch

Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin: More Stories Worth Keeping

Taschenbuch

People of the Deer (Death of a People, Band 1)

Farley Mowat

Taschenbuch

Master of Persuasion: Brian Mulroney's Global Legacy

Fen Osler Hampson

Gebundene Ausgabe

Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

Richard J. Gwyn

Taschenbuch

Mansa Musa I: Kankan Moussa: From Niani to Mecca

Jean-Louis Roy

Taschenbuch

Jon Vickers Jon Vickers Jon Vickers Jon Vickers Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life a Hero's Life a Hero's Life a Hero's Life a Hero's Life

Jeannie Williams, Jonathan Vickers

Gebundene Ausgabe

Although Jeannie Williams was not able to get cooperation from Jon Vickers for her biography of the tenor, he should hardly be displeased with the result. Whenever she touches on the big battles Vickers fought in the opera world-and there are many, from an early dispute with B B C television that simmered for decades, to touchy relations with the Bayreuth Festival that restricted Vickers's appearances to just two summers, to his famous withdrawal from engagements as Tannhäuser-Williams is scrupulous in her presentation of every aspect of the dispute. What emerges from this life story is a great artist who is surprisingly simple, true to his beliefs from the very start, and dispassionately aware of the value of his gifts. Williams gives us a man who encompasses three of opera's most demanding roles ( Otello, Tristan, and Aeneas in < I> Les Troyens) in one season at the Metropolitan Opera, then is asked to stand by for Placido Domingo as he toys with Aeneas in the Met's centennial season. Lack of respect in his native Canada is a recurring theme: the great Tristan shares the bill with Phil Silvers at the Canadian National Exposition, and a fitting farewell tour is sabotaged by the Canada Council.

Because she must rely on published interviews, Williams is constricted in her analysis of how Vickers developed his highly individual interpretations of his roles. Tellingly, a singing actress who could meet Vickers on his own terms, Teresa Stratas, offers the most revealing descriptions of how the singer worked. Through accumulation of details ( Benjamin Britten twice walked out on Vickers's < I> Peter Grimes; elsewhere we learn that Vickers found embellished Handel "old fashioned"), Williams gives us a sense of what made Vickers wild and gripping onstage. Birgit Nilsson contributed the lovely foreword. < I>-William R. Braun