Lost Divas

By André Tubeuf

This book tells all about a lost, authentically legendary species: the divas. They were the first movie stars before Pickford and Garbo, there was Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, and Mary Garden.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2843237351
• ISBN13: 9782843237355
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Assouline
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.8" x 14.8"

Customer Reviews

excellent!

I saw this book, at a used book store for $45, Lost Divas. It was at an excellent condition and arrived in a timely manner. Thank you very much!

Beautiful Book!!!!!

This is a treasure-trove of poetic, ethereal photographs! Fascinating, mysterious, beautiful faces of the opera stars of our past. What a gift to have preserved these great memories for generations to come. Thank you Andre Tubeuf! Highly recommended. If you love real beauty, you will LOVE this book.

THEY HAD VOICES... THEY HAD FACES.

What a moving and beautiful experience to see these collection of great portraits of almost and totally forgotten divas of Opera from the early twentieth century and hear some of her voices (16 cuts on a specially produced CD , cleverly selected and well remastered, mounted on the inside of the back cover). With a big size and stylish design. printed with great care on high quality paper, this is a rare book, absolutely unmissable if you love Opera or just great Photography. So sad to think how little of that old grace and style can be found on the pathetic divas of showbiz today.

Stunning photos from the days when opera was really grand

Thank you, Andre Tubeuf. By scouring second-hand shops and flea-markets in Paris, he managed to collect a remarkable record of opera singers who were famous in their day, and now are largely unknown. Some are more famous than others (for example, Mary Garden, who was the first Melisande in Debussy's opera, or Rosa Ponselle) but in many cases, the more obscure divas are the most pleasurable to see here. Like Marie Gutheil-Schoder, who sang under Mahler at the Vienna Opera, or the terrifying Anna von Mildenburg (another Mahler discovery). The book thoughtfully includes a CD so we can hear as well as see these astonishing creatures. If you've read Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat (and if you haven't read it, you should!), this book could function as illustrations for his chapter on "Codes of Diva Conduct."