Blurb for Vissi d'arte
A Novel about Love and Music
Nicholas is an ambitious young opera director. Natasha, Jacqueline, Max, Deborah and Richard are talented young singers at a fiercely competitive opera school. Harriet has a secret. Vivien is an inquisitive journalist.
Set in Australia in the sixties, a time of moral and cultural change, Vissi d’arte is about the ambitions and relationships between students and staff at an opera school in Melbourne. Politically, this period of Australian history was turbulent. Passions over conscription and the Vietnam War were intense. The opposing views of the characters cause explosive quarrels. Further conflict occurs when Nicholas, the new director from London, wants to update popular operas and put on performances by modern composers. His ideas are resisted by the founder of the theatre, Harriet Shaw, who is a traditionalist.
Vissi d’arte contains doomed love stories and a mystery, which is interwoven through the novel. In 1930 Harriet gave up her opera career in London. For years she has lied about the reason. Nicholas’s girlfriend, Vivien, starts investigating.
Episode 1 tomorrow.
Nicholas is an ambitious young opera director. Natasha, Jacqueline, Max, Deborah and Richard are talented young singers at a fiercely competitive opera school. Harriet has a secret. Vivien is an inquisitive journalist.
Set in Australia in the sixties, a time of moral and cultural change, Vissi d’arte is about the ambitions and relationships between students and staff at an opera school in Melbourne. Politically, this period of Australian history was turbulent. Passions over conscription and the Vietnam War were intense. The opposing views of the characters cause explosive quarrels. Further conflict occurs when Nicholas, the new director from London, wants to update popular operas and put on performances by modern composers. His ideas are resisted by the founder of the theatre, Harriet Shaw, who is a traditionalist.
Vissi d’arte contains doomed love stories and a mystery, which is interwoven through the novel. In 1930 Harriet gave up her opera career in London. For years she has lied about the reason. Nicholas’s girlfriend, Vivien, starts investigating.
Episode 1 tomorrow.
Labels: Opera
posted by Outback Writer @ 5:58 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:32 AM ,
Anonymous said...
This is one of the most heart-warming reads, that I have read for a long time. As soon as you start reading, the characters come alive with realism, passion and sincerity. Once I began I just couldn't put it down and certainly didn't want it to end. Bring on Vissi d'arte - the movie.
Or perhaps it should be Vissi d'arte the opera about opera.....!!
Once again I praise this book and would love to see it published into the shops.
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