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The Sibyl Sanderson story : requiem for a diva /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Jack Winsor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pompton Plains, NJ : Milwaukee, Wis. : Amadeus Press ; North American sales, Hal Leonard Corp., 2005.
Series:Opera biography series ; no. 16.
Subjects:
Sanderson, Sibyl, > 1865-1903.
Sopranos (Singers) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The silver spoon
  • Hearst and the Violet Rainbows
  • Sanderson versus Sanderson
  • Final decree
  • Beaucoup des dumbbells
  • The genie
  • Pygmalion appears
  • A Night of anguish
  • Paris capitulates
  • La vie en rose
  • The Belgian conquest
  • A winter for duels
  • The diva meets a god
  • Immortal Manon
  • Nights from Shéhérazade
  • Constellations and black holes
  • Delicately brutal
  • The monk and the courtesan
  • Thaïs at the Opéra
  • The Golden Calf
  • Grape leaves and fillies
  • Fall from Olympus
  • Love and the locksmith
  • Enter Madame Schmidt
  • Molto simpatico
  • Odette-Odile
  • Hymen's victory
  • Unhappily ever after
  • Phantom legacy
  • Birth of a star
  • Storm over the Namouna
  • Ill-fated tour
  • The comeback
  • Desperate gamble
  • The American return
  • A prophet without honor
  • Romantic interlude
  • Walpurgis Nights
  • The Labyrinth
  • Full circle
  • Epilogue.