Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Performed on the Lyric Stage From the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time
It is only in those four countries that a national Opera can be said to exist. In each of them the musical stage has acquired distinctive peculiarities, but in all of them it re tains the principal features which it has derived from Italy, the land of its birth. Composers and performers have been natives of other countries-spain, Russia, Sweden, or Den mark; but they have all been formed chie?y on the school of Italy, and, in some degree, on those of France and Ger many. AS to England, she is beginning to have a school; but beyond our own shores English Opera has no in?uence.
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