xvi, 509 pages : 21 cm

Reprint. Originally published: The glorious ones. New York : Times Books, 1985

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-492) and index

The castrati -- Angelica Catalani -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache -- A digression on money -- Nicolò Paganini -- Franz Liszt -- Jenny Lind -- Joseph Joachim -- Anton Rubinstein -- Adelina Patti -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke -- Ignaz Paderewski -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jan Kubelík, and Fritz Kreisler -- Nellie Melba -- Enrico Caruso -- A digression on tenors -- Josef Hofmann -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- John McCormack -- Feodor Chaliapin -- Arturo Toscanini -- Jascha Heifetz -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior -- Arthur Rubinstein -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Maria Callas -- A digression on health and ills -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo

The castrati -- Angelica Catalani -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache -- A digression on money -- Nicolo Paganini -- Franz Liszt -- Jenny Lind -- Joseph Joachim -- Anton Rubinstein -- Adelina Patti -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke -- Ignaz Paderewski -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugene Ysaye, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Kreisler -- Nellie Melba -- Enrico Caruso -- A digression on tenors -- Josef Hofmann -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- John McCormack -- Feodor Chaliapin -- Arturo Toscanini -- Jascha Heifetz -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior -- Arthur Rubinstein -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Maria Callas -- A digression on health and ills -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo

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