Sherrill Milnes
Auteur de Requiem / Pelleas et Mélisande / Pavane [sound recording]
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Sherrill Milnes
Œuvres de Sherrill Milnes
Oeuvres associées
Donizetti - Lucie de Lammermoor / Dessay, Alagna, Tézier, Laho, Cavallier, Saelens, Pido (Opéra de Lyon) (1964) — quelques éditions — 124 exemplaires
Salome [sound recording] (1972) — Baritone vocals [Jochanaan, Il Profeta], quelques éditions — 81 exemplaires
Happy trails 2 exemplaires
Strauss : Salome [sound recording] {1968 Leinsdorf/London Symphony Orchestra} (1968) — Baritone vocals [Jochanaan, Il Profeta] — 2 exemplaires
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - Live from The Metropolitan Opera [1978 film] (2009) 1 exemplaire
Anniversary fanfare + Belshazzar's feast + Cello concerto + Coronation Te Deum + Crown imperial + Orb and sceptre +… (1999) — Baritone, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1935-01-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- operatic baritone
- Organisations
- Metropolitan Opera
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 51
- Popularité
- #311,767
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
As a huge opera fan, I was eager for lots of behind the scenes stories. He does recount many and there are some genuinely “laugh out loud” moments (which is particularly awkward on a bus or subway!). The most personal and moving chapter is the “Decade of Panic” in which he describes the chronic throat ailment that ultimately derailed his Met career.
That said, the book was disappointing. In many ways it’s just a catalog of events in his life and career with no real analysis. He glosses over the major events (both personal and professional), not so much describing them, but listing them. Several of the stories he recounts are done so in a fairly blatantly self-serving way. For example, he clearly has an ax to grind with some of the folks at the Met and those stories and people are presented with a very obvious bias. I also would have liked to read a bit more of his thoughts on music, opera and his roles. Still, it was a fun read.
P.S. If anyone was an "Odd Couple" fan, you might be interested to know that, gleaning from the book, I'm guessing that Milnes was the baritone originally cast for the "Rigoletto" episode - the one in which Richard Fredricks starred.… (plus d'informations)