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Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life (Hardcover)

by Birgit Nilsson (Foreword), Jeannie Williams (Author)

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Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Northeastern University Press (31 Dec 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1555534082
ISBN-13: 978-1555534080
Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.4 x 3.7 cm

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Vickers, the Canadian tenor famous for his emotional intensity in roles such as Othello, Tristan, and Parsifal, is the focus of this biography. Williams, a columnist for USA Today who has also written for a number of prominent opera periodicals, uses interviews with those who knew and worked with Vickers to follow his life from childhood to his lat

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In her foreword Jeannie Williams admits that the tenor refused all cooperation as is his custom. She therefore asks for our indulgence if there are some mistakes. I haven't found any. Williams fully succeeds in giving us all relevant facts, all psychological clues to the history of a secretive, difficult and often very pompous singer
who somewhat mixed up singing with celebrating mass. All the great moments of a succesful career and a few lesser inspired flings are told in clear and fluent prose. This is one of those exemplary singer biographies that are (somewhat sadly) only published in the Anglo-Saxon world. One has to read the hagiographies still appearing in Italian on worthwhile singers to understand the difference. The book has a fine performance-chronology and a full index. I've got one criticism. Williams clearly heard and (very important) often saw Vickers performing but lesser mortals mostly had to do with the records. There should have been a fuller discography and discussion of Vicker's rather limited recorded output because that would make it clear that the voice had many limits of timbre and height( barely able to touch a B). That too would have made it clear that Pavarotti's success was not only due to better publicity as the author seems to think.

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