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Such Sweet Compulsion: The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrar
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Published
March 1st 2007
by Kessinger Publishing
(first published June 28th 1970)
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I read this way back when I first started listening to 78rpms (c. 1991) and fell in love with the cast of the Metropolitan Opera's "Golden Era" - Enrico Caruso, Emmy Destinn, Pasquale Amato, Antonio Scotti, Beniamino Gigli, Rosa Ponselle, and so on into infinity. (They had oodles of talent back then. Today? Not so much.)
Not many of them wrote their own memoirs, but Geraldine Farrar did...twice. Once in 1916 at the height of her career, and then again in 1938 when she had been retired for well o ...more
Not many of them wrote their own memoirs, but Geraldine Farrar did...twice. Once in 1916 at the height of her career, and then again in 1938 when she had been retired for well o ...more
Peculiar structure, with alternating chapters of Gerry's voice and one purporting to be her mother. Which makes it easier for her to say things she doesn't want to say directly like how great she is or damning Lou Tellegen with faint praise--Gerry's voice is more forthright, she does go into more detail on her famous response to his death. The book gets off to a flowery and tedious start (kind of ends that way too) but improves when she gets to the stage and screen, though her accounts are gener
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