Opera News, June 1st, 2001
Singers of the Century,Volume III by B. Steane Amadeus Press, 275 pp. $34.95 "The Century" is, of course, the one just ended, and as for singers, author John B. Steane has been hearing the great ones in the flesh and on recordings - for more than half of that century. The present volume is his third (and avowedly last) collection of fifty essays each, originally derived from columns in the British-based Opera Now magazine. With Giovanni Martinelli for an opener and Enrico Caruso at the end, Steane's writings encompass such present-day luminaries as Ben Heppner, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheor...
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