Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
by
William Murray
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama,...