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English
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Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its...
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Language
English
Description
A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.
4) Opera cat
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her cat, Alma, fills in for her.
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Language
English
Description
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Austria, no one in the Viennese opera company knows that their wardrobe mistress Tessa is really a princess. But when the dashing self-made millionaire Guy Farne arrives at the opera, Tessa realizes that there may be more to life--and love--than just music.
10) Pet of the Met
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Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Maestro Petrini is the only mouse at the Metropolitan Opera House, the perfect place for a music loving mouse and his family. The only danger is Mefisto, the opera house cat, who hates music and mice--until one day when he listens to The Magic Flute and becomes enlightened.
Author
Series
Capital crimes volume 22
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of a brutal murder, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed-Smith, must stop an assassination plot targeting the president of the United States on opening night at the Kennedy Center.
12) Roman + Jewel
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A hip-hopera version of Romeo and Juliet is racing towards Broadway and Jerzie Jhames is cast as the understudy below R & B megastar, Cinny. That would be amazing, but Jerzie had been told the lead was hers -- and when a video of her rehearsing with the leading man is leaked, the internet seems to agree! How much power can Cinny wield to keep the lead and leading man for herself?
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Language
English
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Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. John Watson, the biographer of Sherlock Holmes, reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective. The year is 1891, Paris is the capital of the western world, and its opera house is full of surprises. First and by no means the least is the sudden reappearance of the great love of Holmes's life, an accomplished singer from...
14) Die upon a kiss
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 5
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theaters impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But its pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera. In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux's brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera... More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry,...
Author
Series
Adventures of the Bailey School kids volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera?
17) Maskerade
Author
Series
Discworld volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The phantom in the bone-white mask who has haunted the Ankh-Morpork Opera House for years, is thought to be a benign presence until he starts killing performers backstage. Country girl Perdita X. (aka Agnes Nitt) hides in the chorus and sings arias out loud while the skinny soprano star mouths the notes. She also uses this tactic to hide from witches Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax who have followed her from Lancre to persuade her to join their...
18) Nathan's song
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Outside Dunhammond Conservatory, there lies a dark forest. And in the forest, they say, lives a great beast called the Felix. But Sing da Navelli never put much faith in the rumors and myths surrounding the school; music flows in her blood, and she is there to sing for real. This prestigious academy will finally give her the chance to prove her worth--not as the daughter of the world-renowned da Navellis--but as an artist and leading lady in her...
20) Diva
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. But her fame was hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her golden voice, she learned early in life to protect herself from those who would use her...
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