{"product_id":"living-opera-9780195381382","title":"Living Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua Jampol\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Opera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Opera\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating collection of 20 wide-ranging interviews with the preeminent opera professionals working on and behind the stage today. \u003cbr\u003eJoshua Jampol invites opera-lovers to listen in as performers such as Renee Fleming, Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazon and Placido Domingo speak in exceptionally frank terms about their strengths and weaknesses, and address such hard-hitting, enduring topics as how they deal with critics, vocal troubles, and balancing their career and family lives. We hear conductors such as James Conlon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Kent Nagano discuss their likes and dislikes about the state of contemporary opera, their own inspirations, and whom they themselves hope to inspire. World-class directors such as Robert Carsen and Patrice Ch�reau discuss the complexities involved in staging a successful opera, and how opera can remain relevant today. Jampol has unprecedented access to these major singers, conductors, and directors, and the table of contents reads like a \"who's who\" of the global opera world. Each interview highlights a distinctive voice, and Jampol brings immense knowledge and a wonderful flair\u003cbr\u003eto these conversations. He allows his subjects to follow their thoughts wherever they lead, and reveals in the process a more intimate, reflective side of the emotional and extravagant world of the lyric arts. \u003cbr\u003eFor anyone wanting to know more about the people behind the performances--what they think, how they feel, and who they really are--\u003cem\u003eLiving Opera\u003c\/em\u003e is full of delights and surprises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969684127895,"sku":"9780195381382","price":2501.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195381382.webp?v=1782923300","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/living-opera-9780195381382","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}