Even greater operatic disasters / Hugh Vickers ; illustrated by Michael ffolkes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Melbourne : Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., 1982.Description: 80 p. : ill., music ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 782.1 VIC
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- General Mayhem -- Wagnerian Problems -- Animal and Other Natural Hazards -- The Malevolence of Inanimate Objects -- Index.
Summary: "Hugh Vicker's Great Operatic Disasters was one of the Christmas best-sellers for 1979 in Britain, and all opera enthusiasts' favourite stocking filler. It subsequently appeared in America and Australia and gave similar pleasure to thousands of people. Now, the author has compiled a second, and even more hilarious, anthology of operatic disasters involving mayhem, malice, the inbuilt malevolence of stage machinery and ponderous props and the caprice of audience, performers and conductors." -- Book cover
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- General Mayhem -- Wagnerian Problems -- Animal and Other Natural Hazards -- The Malevolence of Inanimate Objects -- Index.

"Hugh Vicker's Great Operatic Disasters was one of the Christmas best-sellers for 1979 in Britain, and all opera enthusiasts' favourite stocking filler. It subsequently appeared in America and Australia and gave similar pleasure to thousands of people.
Now, the author has compiled a second, and even more hilarious, anthology of operatic disasters involving mayhem, malice, the inbuilt malevolence of stage machinery and ponderous props and the caprice of audience, performers and conductors." -- Book cover

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