Scarecrow Press
Pages: 334
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978-0-8108-5947-0 • Hardback • July 2008 • $113.00 • (£87.00)
978-0-8108-6110-7 • Paperback • July 2008 • $82.00 • (£63.00)
978-0-8108-6368-2 • eBook • July 2008 • $77.50 • (£60.00)
Daniel Kessler is a writer and lecturer on opera. He is a contributor to Opera Quarterly and has served as a lecturer for the San Francisco Opera.
The book is enthralling and provides insights into a person about whom little is available; recommended for all collections.....
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Sarah Caldwell was a unique force in the world of opera — inspired, inspiring, bold, idealistic, unconventional and almost indomitable. Daniel Kessler's fascinating exploration of her life and work is sensitive, cool-headed, delicately balanced, elegantly written and splendidly researched....
— Martin Bernheimer
Kessler provides eyewitness testimony for each scene's mise-en-scene, backed up by production stills and the sole studio recording Caldwell made (for EMI). Kessler's dilligent research probably cannot be bettered.....
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There are many telling anecdotes in Kessler's fast-paced, honest, and very thorough chronicle of Sarah Caldwell's career.
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