Books Opera Singer Should Never Read
Unless They Want to Become Wiser
Some weeks ago, I posted a carousel about the “5 Books Opera Singers Should Never Read… Unless They Want to Become Wiser…”
Well, thanks to my followers, the list has grown longer!
Giulio Caccini — Le nuove musiche (prefazione)
Pier Francesco Tosi — Opinioni de’ cantori antichi e moderni
Giambattista Mancini — Riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato
Jérôme Hines — The Four Voices of Man
Lanfranco Rasponi — The Last Prima Donnas
Edgar F. Herbert-Caesari — The Voice of the Mind
Edgar F. Herbert-Caesari — Tradition and Gigli
Kenneth Bozeman — Practical Vocal Acoustics
Richard Miller — The Structure of Singing
Wendy D. LeBorgne e Marci Rosenberg — The Vocal Athlete
Scott Jeffrey McCoy — Your Voice: An Inside View
Lynn Eustis — The Singer’s Ego
Susan Rutherford — The Prima Donna and Opera
Lilli Lehmann — How to Sing
Anne Edwards — Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography
Giovanni Battista Lamperti — Vocal Wisdom
Renée Fleming — The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Thomas Hemsley — Singing and Imagination: A Human Approach to a Great Musical Tradition
Richard Miller — Training Soprano Voices
Sergius Kagen — On Studying Singing
Oren L. Brown — Discover Your Voice
Reynaldo Hahn — On Singing and Singers
Giacomo Lauri Volpi — I Misteri della Voce Umana
P. Mario Marafioti — Caruso’s Method of Voice Production
Cornelius L. Reid — The Free Voice