Description |
xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Richard Bonynge -- Preface -- 1. Miss Riviere 1810-1830 -- 2. Mrs Bishop 1831-1838 -- 3. Le Chevalier -- 4. Cause Célèbre -- 5. L'Étoile du Nord 1839-1840 -- 6. Where angels fear 1840-1841 -- 7. Trials and tribulations 1842 -- 8. La Bishop 1843 -- 9. Giuseppe who? 1844-1846 -- 10. Home sweet home 1846-1847 -- 11. The new world 1847-1849 -- 12. In the halls of Montezuma 1849-1850 -- 13. A flock of nightingales 1850-1853 -- 14. The golden west 1854-1855 -- 15. Broken strings 1856-1857 -- 16. Conquistadera 1857-1858 -- 17. Mrs Schultz 1858-1865 -- 18. Misadventures in the Pacific 1866 -- 19. The tiger's lair 1866-1868 -- 20. Full circle 1868-1875 -- 21. Dust and diamonds 1875-1876 -- 22. I am an Englishwoman 1877-1879 -- 23. Final curtain 1880-1881 |
Summary |
"Anna Bishop, the rebellious wife of the 'English Mozart', Henry Bishop, eloped in1829 with the dissolute French harpist Nicholas Bochsa and began an adventure lasting forty years. With an entourage of characters as colourful as herself, she and her lover survived snow and jungle, shipwreck and impassable mountains, bandits, cholera outbreaks and civil wars. She sang in the great opera houses and in makeshift venues in the outposts of civilisation. Hers was a life that cannot even be imagined today." -- Book jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Bishop, Anna, 1810-1884.
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Soprano (Singers) -- Biography
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Sopranos (Singers) -- Biography.
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Sopranos (Singers) -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
National Library of Australia.
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