Le masque, Décembre 1959--1960

Le 8 décembre 1936, l’avion de l’ambassade française est abattu dans le ciel de Madrid. A son bord, le grand reporter Louis Delaprée et le chef de la délégation du Comité internati...

This book tells the story of 1960—a tumultuous, transitional year that unleashed the forces that eventually reshaped the American nation and the entire planet, to the joy of millio...

In this chapter, the author reflects on the issue of race in opera and its impact on black singers. He first recounts his European operatic debut in Milan in 1960, singing the role...

Imaginez-vous à Athènes, vers 414 avant J.-C. Dans le théâtre de Dionysos sous l’Acropole. Gradins en bois, sol de terre battue, et pour seul décor un bâtiment rudimentaire, doté d...

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose i...

The image of Britannia long pre-dated the eighteenth century, but throughout its history she was often viewed as the victim of outside aggression rather than as the defender of the...