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Rupert Christiansen
bursting with extraordinary characters and anecdotes.' Sunday Telegraph
'An extraordinary tale, enthrallingly told.' Gramophone
Such was the credo of the ruthlessly manipulative and resourceful Serge Diaghilev - the Russian impresario…
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An expertly-written guide that is also extremely readable and accessible.
A Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
"Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen's] delight is infectious." --Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book…
The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviour. The Ballets Russes came to an…
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Like present-day New York, early-nineteenth-century London was an extraordinarily vibrant and creative metropolis to which visitors – from scholars to social climbers – went in search of wealth and fame…
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program…
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An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never relinquished.
Though arguably the last of the true Wagnerians, Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) was by no means limited to Wagner in her repertoire. Her roles as Isolde, Brunnhilde, Salome, Elektra…
