Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. - signiertes Exemplar
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Vahlen Frankfurt 1963. HALBLEINEN, 210 gebräunte Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, auf keine Markierungen/Anmerkungen, das Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Vahlen Frankfurt 1963, 0, Very Good. Hardcover. Stated 1st printing hardcover with dustjacket 2000 New World Library. Handsome new blank bookplate covers previous owner's writng on dedication page. Otherwise like new: no other marks; pages bright; binding tight; jacket crisp. 165 pages. Language: English. Foreword by Neale Donald Walsch. '[A]n extraordinary true story of two friends, both living with AIDS, who make a simple but spiritually challenging pact: whoever dies first will try to contact, or signal, the other from beyond. Joel Rothschild, the more skeptical of the two, is the one left behind. His book chronicles a series of miraculous experiences and encounters that tell an amazing story and offer proof of an afterlife. One man's journey from skeptic to believer, Signals shows that there is far more in heaven and earth than the human mind can comprehend. It's a powerful story of awakening and transformation that takes readers on an unforgettable adventure.'--from the publisher., 3, España: BOD ALEMAN. Rústica. Nuevo/Nuevo. Impresión bajo demanda (IBD) Este libro se imprime para tí. Por ello es tiempo de entrega se demora aproximadamente entre 1-2 semas mas de la fecha de entrega indicada en albarán. Print on Demand (IBD) This book is printed for you. Therefore, the delivery time takes approximately 1-2 weeks more than the delivery date indicated on the delivery note. (IBD) Dieses Buch wurde für Sie gedruckt. Daher dauert die Lieferzeit ca. 1-2 Wochen länger als der auf dem Lieferschein angegebene Liefertermin.Impression à la demande (IBD) Ce livre est imprimé pour vous. Par conséquent, le délai de livraison prend environ 1 à 2 semaines de plus que la date de livraison indiquée sur le bon de livraison., BOD ALEMAN, 0, (Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Zürich: Pendo-Verlag, 2003. hardcover. gebraucht, sehr gut Illustrierter Original-Pappband. SEHR GUTES EXEMPLAR.. 21 x 14 cm. Auf Anfrage per E-Mail können Sie die bei uns bestellten Artikel auch in unserer Buchscheune, 01796 Struppen (Mo.-Fr. 9-16 Uhr) abholen., Pendo-Verlag, 2003, 2.5, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921, 0, Knopf. Very Good. 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 1998. 259 pages. dj has small rip. Price clipped.<br>A wickedly funny l ook at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, d ivine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world 's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuel a Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cec ilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's sign ature role, and Cinderella & Company tells the fairy-tale story o f her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fi at was the coach of choice. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, t he starlit nights and nail-chewing days are all part of a narrati ve that shows Bartoli rehearsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her vivacity and dazzling virtuosity. Along th e way, Hoelterhoff gives us an unusually vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the opera world. The first stop is Houston, where Bartol i brightens a droopy Cenerentola production; later scenes follow her to Disney World and to the Metropolitan Opera, where a fidget y cast awaits the flight-phobic mezzo's arrival for Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Traveling to Santa Fe, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Londo n, Hoelterhoff drops in on opening nights and boardroom meetings, talks to managers and agents, describes where the money comes fr om, and survives one of the longest galas in history. Here too a re tantalizing glimpses of divinities large and small: Kathleen B attle's famously chilly limousine ride; Plácido Domingo flying th rough three time zones to step into the boots of an ailing Otello ; Luciano Pavarotti aiming for high C in his twilight years. And we meet the present players in Bartoli's world: Roberto Alagna an d Angela Gheorghiu, a.k.a. the Love Couple; Jane Eaglen, the Wagn erian web potato monitoring her cyberspace fan mail; the appealin g soprano Renée Fleming, finally on the brink of stardom. At onc e informed and accessible, Cinderella & Company brings the world of grand opera into sharp focus--right up to the last glimpse of Cecilia Bartoli waving triumphantly from Cinderella's wedding cak e. Editorial Reviews The author defines her style at the begin ning of this bright, gossipy book about one of opera's youngest s uperstars. Manuela Hoelterhoff starts off by discussing Rossini's Cinderella opera, La Cenerentola, which she then uses as a recur ring metaphor throughout the book. Her description is accurate wh en she calls it music that dances, whispers, charms and dazzles f rom beginning to end. But if one substitutes prose for music in t hat quote, she might well be writing about Cinderella & Company. Hoelterhoff's style is deliciously appropriate for her chosen su bject, the world of mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. It is even mor e suited to the story's background: the larger-than-life style of the world's great opera houses and the colorful personalities of many people found there--onstage, backstage, and even in the aud ience. In terms of eccentricity, Bartoli does not stand out; she has a fair share of phobias (flying, computers, microphones), and she cancels performances more frequently than her fans would lik e, but her primary interest is musical: a voice, not very powerfu l but beautiful, which she uses with a fine sense of bel canto st yle, considerable acting skill, and a careful choice of the right music. Much of the book's appeal lies in its descriptions of pe ople, which tend to be short, pungent, and devastatingly on targe t: Maria Callas, the queen of whatever opera company she wasn't f euding with; conductor Herbert von Karajan, who had a reputation, entirely deserved, as a voice killer; baritone Bryn Terfel, a gu y with the body of Meat Loaf and an exuberant performing style; a gent-publicist Herbert Breslin, a motor-mouthed, bullet-headed .. . egomaniac ... I used to go through the obituary section of the Times looking for his; Luciano Pavarotti, a crumbling monument; a nd lots more. --Joe McLellan From Publishers Weekly There aren' t many books about opera?or anything else, for that matter?that m ake you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first boo k, Hoelterhoff, who won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street Journal, had the bright idea of following superst ar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the conte mporary opera world. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?s he's pretty and charming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tin y repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordi ngs?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name o n which to hang as witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied wo rld as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weight and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and the adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missin g performances that make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?al l are recurring elements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the two years she followed Bartoli, to have been every where and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but e verything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sen se of the ridiculous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ backgro und, but she seems never to have encountered a musicians' union s he didn't hate, whereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars see m to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Infor mation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly There aren't many books abou t opera?or anything else, for that matter?that make you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first book, Hoelterhoff, w ho won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street J ournal, had the bright idea of following superstar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the contemporary opera wor ld. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?she's pretty and c harming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tiny repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordings?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name on which to hang a s witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied world as the gossip iest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weigh t and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and th e adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missing performances th at make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?all are recurring e lements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the tw o years she followed Bartoli, to have been everywhere and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but everything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sense of the ridicul ous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ background, but she seem s never to have encountered a musicians' union she didn't hate, w hereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars seem to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 fir st printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fro m Library Journal Several years ago, mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartol i was the hottest young opera singer around. Hoelterhoff, a membe r of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, where she re ceived a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism, follows Bartoli's career over a two-year period (October 1995 through October 1997 ), talking with the singer and her family, manager, colleagues, a nd rivals. The result is an affectionate if not always flattering look at a charmingly eccentric artist. The title, however, is so mewhat misleading; the Bartoli story in fact functions as a frame work for the author's cynical and witty observations. (Her accoun t of the recent eight-hour gala celebrating James Levine's 25th a nniversary at the Metropolitan Opera is not to be missed.) A grea t deal of attention is paid to other singers, including Renee Fle ming, Luciano Pavarotti (Mr. P.), and Roberto Alagna and Angela G heorghiu (The Love Couple). We learn about singers' fees, the rol e of record companies, and the harrowing life of a manager. The a uthor knows her subject well; hers is a delicious mix of gossip a nd insightful commentary. Highly recommended for public libraries .AKate McCaffrey, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, NY Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Wall Street Journ al music critic Hoelterhoff spent two years tracking the career o f Cecilia Bartoli, the Roman mezzo-soprano whose way with bel can to repertoire, Rossini's Cenerentola (i.e., Cinderella) in partic ular, had made her America's favorite younger singer. Because thi s wasn't a matter of journalistic stalking and because Hoelterhof f cultivates friendly relations with the subjects of her critique s, she also dropped in on the careers of such other singers as up -and-comers soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna, th e late-blooming Rene e Fleming, the judiciously long-lasting Mire lla Freni, and the fabulous, faltering, fading Fat Man (Pavarotti --who else?). Her reporting on them makes utterly delicious readi ng--and not just for opera mavens--because she is wry and funny, because she loves singing and opera and describes their effects o n good listeners well, and because she is fascinated by these eno rmously temperamental people, whom she sees as justified in their egocentricities by the fact that they do regularly what is flat- out impossible for the rest of us. Ray Olson Review ...a hilario us, revealing, and sometimes malicious book about operatic intrig ue on and off the stage. -- The Boston Globe, Richard Dyer ...a naughtily witty tell-almost-all book (there is, thank God, no sex ) that has the further advantage of being true. -- The New York T imes Book Review, Terry Teachout ...the most perceptive and hila riously honest book on the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time. -- The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini Fro m the Publisher The most perceptive and hilariously honest book o n the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time... .For two years, Ms. Hoelterhoff had enviable access to Cecilia Ba rtoli and her circle: her mother, a former chorus soprano and sti ll Ms. Bartoli's most trusted vocal coach; her worldly Italian bo yfriend; her savvy manager, and a whole cast of recording executi ves and attendant conductors who pass through the story like comp rimario characters in an opera buffa....Happily for readers, Ms. Hoelterhoff introduces us to just about everyone operatic she met during those two years, interspersed with collected bits of wisd om and gossip....Ms. Hoelterhoff is such an interesting observer and beguiling writer that you eagerly follow her anywhere.....Kno wing of Ms. Hoelterhoff's reputation as an unsparing cirtic and r eporter, it's amazing that so many people in the business talked with her so freely, most notably the powerful manager and public relations maestro Herbert Breslin. [His] soliloquy on how he and his prime client, Luciano Pavarotti, showed everyone how real mon ey could be made in opera is breathtaking in its honesty and sham elessness.... The sections on Bartoli are the heart of the book. There is ample evidence of her superb musicianship, determination and unconventionally interesting career choices.....Ms. Bartoli' s career is a juggernaut, and one can only hope she keeps her bal ance. Ms. Hoelterhoff makes few predictions, but it is immensely fun an informative to read her account of the problems. -- Antho ny Tommasini, The New York Times Manuela Hoelterhoff has written a delightful and savvy book about the opera world and Cecilia B artoli--all world-class. It's a wonderful book! --Beverly Sills A naughtily witty tell-almost-all book that has the further advan tage of being true...Cinderella & Company is very good on the cir cuslike aspects of real-life opera: the near psychotic egomania a nd secret insecurity, the cruel inside jokes ('How many divas doe s it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.')...No less important is Hoelt erhoff's cold-eyed grasp of the effects big money has on grand op era...Her fang marks can be spotted on nearly every page. ...But what makes Cinderella & Company more than just a book-length bloo dletting is Hoelterhoff's unexpected sympathy for most of the sin gers about whom she writes. --Terry Teachout, The New York Times Hilarious...Opera buffs will munch happily [on] these nuggets. - -Jesse Birnbaum, Time As witty a picture as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for --Publishers Weekly I couldn't put the book down...At its center is a sympathetic, warm-hearted portrait of one of the most gifted singers of today...But Cecilia Bartoli is seen in gossipy context: every big name in the mad world of oper a is here--Pavarotti, Tebaldi, Domingo, Levine, The Alagnas--and few escape Hoelterhoff's eagle eye or her wit, as dry and sparkli ng as the best champagne. --Rodney Milnes, editor of Opera Magazi ne and chief opera critic of the London Times Vastly entertainin g...enormously readable, often hilarious...Hoelterhoff puts her f ormidable critical abilities to work in combination with an unspa ring eye for foibles, a sharp ear for first-rate gossip, and a ra conteur's gift. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden From the Inside Flap A wickedly funny look at opera today--the f euds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young m ezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's signature role, and Cinderell a & Company tells the fairy-tale story of her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fiat was the coach of choic e. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, the starlit nights and nai l-chewing days are all part of a narrative that shows Bartoli reh earsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her viv acity and dazzling virtuosity. Along the way, Hoelterhoff gives, Knopf, 1998, 2.75, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar., Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966, 0, London: Blink Publishing. Very Good-. 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading creases to slightly cocked spine, slight red nail varnish spill to front cover with minor loss to cover gilding. ; Paperback original, first printing with full number line, 2018. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Richard Evans with photos by Micael Ochs and Amalie R. Rothschild. ; Photographs; 352 pages; Autobiography of the voice of a generation, who didn't die before he got old... ., Blink Publishing, 2018, 3, Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition with typical reading wear to cover and spine. Pages are yelllowing., Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10, 2.5, 1994. Erstausgabe, Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig, Insel Verlag, 1994, 8°, 287 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen, original Leineneinband (Hardcover) mit original Schutzumschlag, sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar (ffmK5) im Einzelnen: Christian Egenolff / Adam Elsheimer / Matthäus Merian / Maria Sibylla Merian / Johann Christian Senckenberg / Mayer Amschel Rothschild / Catharina Elisabeth Goethe / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Friedrich Maximilian Klinger / Karoline von Günderode / Marianne von Willemer / Bettina von Arnim / Ludwig Börne / Arthur Schopenhauer / Eduard Rüppell / Friedrich Wöhler / Heinrich Hoffmann / Karl Gutzkow / Friedrich Stoltze / Leopold Sonnemann / Paul Ehrlich / Otto Hahn / Ernst May / Paul Hindesmith / Theodor W. Adorno / Anne Frank Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.), 1994, 0, In den siebziger Jahren hat sich ausgehend vom Artikel Barrol Grossman (1971) unter der anfänglichen Bezeichnung ""Ungleichgewichts theorie"" eine neue Richtung der ökonomischen Theorie etabliert, die die Analyse von Ungleichgewichtszuständen wie Arbeitslosigkeit, unter ausgelastetenProduktionskapazitäten, Arbeitskräftemangel oder Uber nachfrage zum Ziel hat. Wie jede neue Theorie fußt auch diese Rich tung auf weiter zurückliegenden Entwicklungen; Ausgangspunkt für Barro und Grossman war die zweite große Welle der Keynes-Interpre tationen (nach der von Hicks ausgelösten ersten Welle), in der Patinkin (1956), Clower (1963) und Leijonhufvud (1966) versuchten, eine Brücke zwischen mikroökonomischer und makroökonomischer Theorie zu schlagen. Die neue Richtung wird dah.er zuweilen auch als ""Mikro ökonomische Fundierung der makroökonomischen Theorie"" bezeichnet, z.B. in Harcourt (1977) und Weintraub (1977). Trotz der Zielsetzung, Ungleichgewichte zu analysieren, ist die methodische Vorgehensweise weitgehend die einer statischen und komparativ statischen Gleichgewichtsanalyse. Um die neue Richtung einerseits von Ungleichgewichtsansätzen im Sinne einer dynamischen Theorie und andererseits von der Allgemeinen Gleichgewichtstheorie abzugrenzen, hat sich für diese Analysemethode der Begriff des temporären Gleichgewichts eingebür~ert. Die Richtung selbst firmiert in neuerer Zeit unter dem Etikett ""Neue Makroökonomik"". Sie hat mit Böhm (1980) und Rothschild (1981) ""inzwischen Eingang auch in die 1 deutschsprachige Lehrbuchliteratur gefunden. Die' Richtung der Neuen Makroökonomik wird im wesentlichen durch folgende drei Punkte charakterisiert. - Die Annahme flexibler, stets markträumender Preise wird aufge geben. ., 0, New World Library, 2000-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. 0.9000 in x 7.8000 in x 5.3000 in. Unread. Scuffed DJ. Signed and inscribed by the author on the page opposite the title page: Jackie, Love and Light, Joel Rothschild. Thank you for all you do. JR. From the DJ flap: Book is the extraordinary true story of two friends, both living with AIDS, who made a pact: whoever died first would try to contact the other., New World Library, 2000-02-01, 5, 1997. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1997, 8°, 572 S. mit zahlr. s/w-Abb. und Illustr., illustr. original Pappband, Buchrücken oben ein wenig bestoßen, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar (L) INHALT:1200 Jahre Frankfurt am Main - Sechs Vorträge: Wolfgang KLÖTZER: 794. Karl der Große und Frankfurt am Main - Grundlage der Stadtentwicklung / Fred SCHWIND: 1389. Frankfurts Niederlage bei Kronberg/Eschborn - Städtische Selbstbehauptung im dynastischen Umfeld / Karl DIENST: 1524/1533. Die Reformation - Reichsstadt zwischen katholischem Kaiser und protestantischen Interessen / Rainer KOCH: 1612-1616. Der Fettmilchaufstand - Sozialer Sprengstoff für die Bürgerschaft / Gerhard SCHUCK: 1814-1816. Die Konstitution der Freien Stadt. Zwischen Ancien Regime und Liberalisierung / Wilfried FORSTMANN: 1866. Anmerkungen zu einem Epochenjahr der neueren Frankfurter Geschichte --//-- Dagmar WENDLER: Bodenfunde in Frankfurt-Harheim / Barbara DÖLEMEYER: Helenopolis - Phantastisches Frankfur / Claudius Andreas MASSINGER: Die englische Emigrantengemeinde in Frankfurt am Main 1554-1559 / Jutta E. ROLFES: Die Juden in der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main zur Zeit des Fettmilch-Aufstandes 1612-1616 / Mile BRAACH: Johann Wilhelm Abraham Jäger 1718-1790 - Eine firmengeschichtliche Dokumentation / Roswitha MARTELL + Helmut SEIDL: Zwischen Schreiben und Verweilen - Literarischer Dilettantismus am Beispiel des Frankfurter Arztes Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann / Rüdiger MOLDENHAUER: Die Petitionen zur Tiroler und Italienischen Frage an die Deutsche Nationalversammlung in Frankfurt am Main 1848/49 - Das Wirken des späteren Stadtpfarrers am Frankfurter Dom Beda Weber in der Paulskirche / Manfred KÖHLER: Max Quarck und Hermann Wendel - Sozialdemokratische Beiträge zur Frankfurter Stadtgeschichte / Iris REEPEN: Die Mouson-Fabrik in Frankfurt am Main / Albrecht HIRSCHMÜLLER: Durch Leiden zur schöpferischen Kraft? / Konrad BUND: Zur Haltung der Pfarrer der Frankfurter Evangelischen Matthäusgemeinde unter der Herrschaft des Nazifaschismus / Sabine HOCK: Frankfurt am Main zur Stunde Null 1945 - Zwei Briefe von Walter H. Rothschild / Wolfgang KLÖTZER: An Stelle eines Nekrologs: Herrn Professor Dr. Franz Lerner zum 90. Geburtstag 1993 Versandkosten-Info: Die Sendung wiegt mehr als 1,5 KG und wird (innerhalb Deutschlands) als DHL-Paket verschickt. Versand wegen des hohen Gewichts ins Nicht-EU-Ausland nur nach Absprache. Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.), 1997, 0, Frankfurt, Kramer, 1969. 79 S., 10 Bildtaf., kl.okt., ill. Pp. . Abgebildet sind die Familie Rothschild, Mayer Carl von Rothschild, Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, Rudolf Sulzbach, Georg Speyer, Charles Hallgarten, Henry Budge, Jakob Henry Schiff, Isaac Dreyfus und Wilhelm Merton.., Frankfurt, Kramer, 1969., 0, Sotheby's Photographs Auction, New York, 3 October 2012Publisher: Sotheby's (2012)Item Weight: 2 poundsPaperback: 200 pages8.2 x 10.6 inchesSotheby's October 3rd Photographs auction in New York features a range of material from the 19th to 21st centuries. Strong examples of Surrealism by Hans Bellmer, Jindrich Styrsky, Man Ray, and Raoul Ubac are on offer. An eclectic selection of daguerreotypes from the 1850s to the present day is available, from a portrait of Commodore Matthew C. Perry to a study of Butterflies by Adam Fuss. The auction includes a rare suite of 30 mammoth-plate albumen prints of Yosemite Valley by Charles Leander Weed. A complete bound set of Alfred Stieglitz's photographic quarterly, Camera Work, is on offer, with all but the last issue coming originally from the collection of photographer Arthur Siegel.Modernism is represented in works by Paul Strand, Imogen Cunningham, and in four Edward Weston photographs originally purchased by Ichiro Misumi from The Museum of Modern Art and from Weston himself. Three-dimensional works such as Brett Weston's carved wood sculpture of An Abstraction of a School Desk and A Pair of Needlepoint Cushions by George Platt Lynes add some unexpected variety to the auction. Also available is a selection of portfolios by Eliot Porter, Brett Weston, Louis Faurer, and Elliott Erwitt. A mural-sized print of Peter Beard's Rothschild's Giraffes from The Uganda Line presents a rich array of color illustration that typifies Beard's work. Contemporary offerings include Cindy Sherman's Untitled #19 and Untitled #83, as well as works by Doug and Mike Starn, Marilyn Minter, and Robert Polidori, among others.Hans Bellmer Swlf-Portrait With Die Puppe on coverThis arresting and enigmatic Hans Bellmer self-portrait is from the series of photographs he made in 1933 and '34, in Berlin, documenting the construction of his first Doll figure. Bellmer published this image in his 1934 book, Die Puppe, which included 10 sequentially-ordered photographs of the figure's creation. Also in that year, he sent these photographs, through his cousin, to Paris, where they were shown to André Breton, from whose collection this print comes. Breton was immediately impressed, and with Paul Eluard, published a suite of 18 Bellmer photographs, including this self-portrait, in the Winter 1934 number of the Surrealist journal Minotaure, under the title 'Variations sur le montage d'une mineure articulée' ('Variations on the assemblage of an articulated minor'). Back cover - Adam Fuss Untitled (from the series My Ghost)This truly amazing reference book contains 271 brilliant important lots with: photo`s, descriptions and estimates----------------------Sotheby's is a British-founded American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles. 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Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. - signiertes Exemplar
1999, ISBN: 5fbcfff2c97eae32c90e56548ae8ba1c
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Vahlen Frankfurt 1963. HALBLEINEN, 210 gebräunte Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, auf keine Markierungen… Mehr…
Vahlen Frankfurt 1963. HALBLEINEN, 210 gebräunte Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, auf keine Markierungen/Anmerkungen, das Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Vahlen Frankfurt 1963, 0, (Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Zürich: Pendo-Verlag, 2003. hardcover. gebraucht, sehr gut Illustrierter Original-Pappband. SEHR GUTES EXEMPLAR.. 21 x 14 cm. Wir schließen unser Ladengeschäft, die Buchscheune zum Ende September. Auf alle Artikel in der Scheune(nicht auf das Angebot im Internet) erhalten Sie ab sofort 50% Rabatt. 01796 Struppen, Hauptstr.59, (Mo.-Fr. 9-16 Uhr), Pendo-Verlag, 2003, 2.5, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921, 0, Knopf. Very Good. 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 1998. 259 pages. dj has small rip. Price clipped.<br>A wickedly funny l ook at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, d ivine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world 's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuel a Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cec ilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's sign ature role, and Cinderella & Company tells the fairy-tale story o f her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fi at was the coach of choice. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, t he starlit nights and nail-chewing days are all part of a narrati ve that shows Bartoli rehearsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her vivacity and dazzling virtuosity. Along th e way, Hoelterhoff gives us an unusually vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the opera world. The first stop is Houston, where Bartol i brightens a droopy Cenerentola production; later scenes follow her to Disney World and to the Metropolitan Opera, where a fidget y cast awaits the flight-phobic mezzo's arrival for Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Traveling to Santa Fe, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Londo n, Hoelterhoff drops in on opening nights and boardroom meetings, talks to managers and agents, describes where the money comes fr om, and survives one of the longest galas in history. Here too a re tantalizing glimpses of divinities large and small: Kathleen B attle's famously chilly limousine ride; Plácido Domingo flying th rough three time zones to step into the boots of an ailing Otello ; Luciano Pavarotti aiming for high C in his twilight years. And we meet the present players in Bartoli's world: Roberto Alagna an d Angela Gheorghiu, a.k.a. the Love Couple; Jane Eaglen, the Wagn erian web potato monitoring her cyberspace fan mail; the appealin g soprano Renée Fleming, finally on the brink of stardom. At onc e informed and accessible, Cinderella & Company brings the world of grand opera into sharp focus--right up to the last glimpse of Cecilia Bartoli waving triumphantly from Cinderella's wedding cak e. Editorial Reviews The author defines her style at the begin ning of this bright, gossipy book about one of opera's youngest s uperstars. Manuela Hoelterhoff starts off by discussing Rossini's Cinderella opera, La Cenerentola, which she then uses as a recur ring metaphor throughout the book. Her description is accurate wh en she calls it music that dances, whispers, charms and dazzles f rom beginning to end. But if one substitutes prose for music in t hat quote, she might well be writing about Cinderella & Company. Hoelterhoff's style is deliciously appropriate for her chosen su bject, the world of mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. It is even mor e suited to the story's background: the larger-than-life style of the world's great opera houses and the colorful personalities of many people found there--onstage, backstage, and even in the aud ience. In terms of eccentricity, Bartoli does not stand out; she has a fair share of phobias (flying, computers, microphones), and she cancels performances more frequently than her fans would lik e, but her primary interest is musical: a voice, not very powerfu l but beautiful, which she uses with a fine sense of bel canto st yle, considerable acting skill, and a careful choice of the right music. Much of the book's appeal lies in its descriptions of pe ople, which tend to be short, pungent, and devastatingly on targe t: Maria Callas, the queen of whatever opera company she wasn't f euding with; conductor Herbert von Karajan, who had a reputation, entirely deserved, as a voice killer; baritone Bryn Terfel, a gu y with the body of Meat Loaf and an exuberant performing style; a gent-publicist Herbert Breslin, a motor-mouthed, bullet-headed .. . egomaniac ... I used to go through the obituary section of the Times looking for his; Luciano Pavarotti, a crumbling monument; a nd lots more. --Joe McLellan From Publishers Weekly There aren' t many books about opera?or anything else, for that matter?that m ake you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first boo k, Hoelterhoff, who won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street Journal, had the bright idea of following superst ar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the conte mporary opera world. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?s he's pretty and charming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tin y repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordi ngs?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name o n which to hang as witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied wo rld as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weight and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and the adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missin g performances that make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?al l are recurring elements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the two years she followed Bartoli, to have been every where and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but e verything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sen se of the ridiculous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ backgro und, but she seems never to have encountered a musicians' union s he didn't hate, whereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars see m to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Infor mation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly There aren't many books abou t opera?or anything else, for that matter?that make you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first book, Hoelterhoff, w ho won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street J ournal, had the bright idea of following superstar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the contemporary opera wor ld. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?she's pretty and c harming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tiny repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordings?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name on which to hang a s witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied world as the gossip iest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weigh t and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and th e adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missing performances th at make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?all are recurring e lements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the tw o years she followed Bartoli, to have been everywhere and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but everything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sense of the ridicul ous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ background, but she seem s never to have encountered a musicians' union she didn't hate, w hereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars seem to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 fir st printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fro m Library Journal Several years ago, mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartol i was the hottest young opera singer around. Hoelterhoff, a membe r of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, where she re ceived a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism, follows Bartoli's career over a two-year period (October 1995 through October 1997 ), talking with the singer and her family, manager, colleagues, a nd rivals. The result is an affectionate if not always flattering look at a charmingly eccentric artist. The title, however, is so mewhat misleading; the Bartoli story in fact functions as a frame work for the author's cynical and witty observations. (Her accoun t of the recent eight-hour gala celebrating James Levine's 25th a nniversary at the Metropolitan Opera is not to be missed.) A grea t deal of attention is paid to other singers, including Renee Fle ming, Luciano Pavarotti (Mr. P.), and Roberto Alagna and Angela G heorghiu (The Love Couple). We learn about singers' fees, the rol e of record companies, and the harrowing life of a manager. The a uthor knows her subject well; hers is a delicious mix of gossip a nd insightful commentary. Highly recommended for public libraries .AKate McCaffrey, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, NY Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Wall Street Journ al music critic Hoelterhoff spent two years tracking the career o f Cecilia Bartoli, the Roman mezzo-soprano whose way with bel can to repertoire, Rossini's Cenerentola (i.e., Cinderella) in partic ular, had made her America's favorite younger singer. Because thi s wasn't a matter of journalistic stalking and because Hoelterhof f cultivates friendly relations with the subjects of her critique s, she also dropped in on the careers of such other singers as up -and-comers soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna, th e late-blooming Rene e Fleming, the judiciously long-lasting Mire lla Freni, and the fabulous, faltering, fading Fat Man (Pavarotti --who else?). Her reporting on them makes utterly delicious readi ng--and not just for opera mavens--because she is wry and funny, because she loves singing and opera and describes their effects o n good listeners well, and because she is fascinated by these eno rmously temperamental people, whom she sees as justified in their egocentricities by the fact that they do regularly what is flat- out impossible for the rest of us. Ray Olson Review ...a hilario us, revealing, and sometimes malicious book about operatic intrig ue on and off the stage. -- The Boston Globe, Richard Dyer ...a naughtily witty tell-almost-all book (there is, thank God, no sex ) that has the further advantage of being true. -- The New York T imes Book Review, Terry Teachout ...the most perceptive and hila riously honest book on the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time. -- The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini Fro m the Publisher The most perceptive and hilariously honest book o n the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time... .For two years, Ms. Hoelterhoff had enviable access to Cecilia Ba rtoli and her circle: her mother, a former chorus soprano and sti ll Ms. Bartoli's most trusted vocal coach; her worldly Italian bo yfriend; her savvy manager, and a whole cast of recording executi ves and attendant conductors who pass through the story like comp rimario characters in an opera buffa....Happily for readers, Ms. Hoelterhoff introduces us to just about everyone operatic she met during those two years, interspersed with collected bits of wisd om and gossip....Ms. Hoelterhoff is such an interesting observer and beguiling writer that you eagerly follow her anywhere.....Kno wing of Ms. Hoelterhoff's reputation as an unsparing cirtic and r eporter, it's amazing that so many people in the business talked with her so freely, most notably the powerful manager and public relations maestro Herbert Breslin. [His] soliloquy on how he and his prime client, Luciano Pavarotti, showed everyone how real mon ey could be made in opera is breathtaking in its honesty and sham elessness.... The sections on Bartoli are the heart of the book. There is ample evidence of her superb musicianship, determination and unconventionally interesting career choices.....Ms. Bartoli' s career is a juggernaut, and one can only hope she keeps her bal ance. Ms. Hoelterhoff makes few predictions, but it is immensely fun an informative to read her account of the problems. -- Antho ny Tommasini, The New York Times Manuela Hoelterhoff has written a delightful and savvy book about the opera world and Cecilia B artoli--all world-class. It's a wonderful book! --Beverly Sills A naughtily witty tell-almost-all book that has the further advan tage of being true...Cinderella & Company is very good on the cir cuslike aspects of real-life opera: the near psychotic egomania a nd secret insecurity, the cruel inside jokes ('How many divas doe s it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.')...No less important is Hoelt erhoff's cold-eyed grasp of the effects big money has on grand op era...Her fang marks can be spotted on nearly every page. ...But what makes Cinderella & Company more than just a book-length bloo dletting is Hoelterhoff's unexpected sympathy for most of the sin gers about whom she writes. --Terry Teachout, The New York Times Hilarious...Opera buffs will munch happily [on] these nuggets. - -Jesse Birnbaum, Time As witty a picture as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for --Publishers Weekly I couldn't put the book down...At its center is a sympathetic, warm-hearted portrait of one of the most gifted singers of today...But Cecilia Bartoli is seen in gossipy context: every big name in the mad world of oper a is here--Pavarotti, Tebaldi, Domingo, Levine, The Alagnas--and few escape Hoelterhoff's eagle eye or her wit, as dry and sparkli ng as the best champagne. --Rodney Milnes, editor of Opera Magazi ne and chief opera critic of the London Times Vastly entertainin g...enormously readable, often hilarious...Hoelterhoff puts her f ormidable critical abilities to work in combination with an unspa ring eye for foibles, a sharp ear for first-rate gossip, and a ra conteur's gift. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden From the Inside Flap A wickedly funny look at opera today--the f euds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young m ezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's signature role, and Cinderell a & Company tells the fairy-tale story of her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fiat was the coach of choic e. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, the starlit nights and nai l-chewing days are all part of a narrative that shows Bartoli reh earsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her viv acity and dazzling virtuosity. Along the way, Hoelterhoff gives, Knopf, 1998, 2.75, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. 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Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. - Erstausgabe
1999, ISBN: 5fbcfff2c97eae32c90e56548ae8ba1c
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(Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsisc… Mehr…
(Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar., Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966, 0, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921, 0, 1994. 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Hardcover. 1998. 259 pages. dj has small rip. Price clipped.<br>A wickedly funny l ook at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, d ivine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world 's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuel a Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cec ilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's sign ature role, and Cinderella & Company tells the fairy-tale story o f her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fi at was the coach of choice. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, t he starlit nights and nail-chewing days are all part of a narrati ve that shows Bartoli rehearsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her vivacity and dazzling virtuosity. Along th e way, Hoelterhoff gives us an unusually vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the opera world. The first stop is Houston, where Bartol i brightens a droopy Cenerentola production; later scenes follow her to Disney World and to the Metropolitan Opera, where a fidget y cast awaits the flight-phobic mezzo's arrival for Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Traveling to Santa Fe, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Londo n, Hoelterhoff drops in on opening nights and boardroom meetings, talks to managers and agents, describes where the money comes fr om, and survives one of the longest galas in history. Here too a re tantalizing glimpses of divinities large and small: Kathleen B attle's famously chilly limousine ride; Plácido Domingo flying th rough three time zones to step into the boots of an ailing Otello ; Luciano Pavarotti aiming for high C in his twilight years. And we meet the present players in Bartoli's world: Roberto Alagna an d Angela Gheorghiu, a.k.a. the Love Couple; Jane Eaglen, the Wagn erian web potato monitoring her cyberspace fan mail; the appealin g soprano Renée Fleming, finally on the brink of stardom. At onc e informed and accessible, Cinderella & Company brings the world of grand opera into sharp focus--right up to the last glimpse of Cecilia Bartoli waving triumphantly from Cinderella's wedding cak e. Editorial Reviews The author defines her style at the begin ning of this bright, gossipy book about one of opera's youngest s uperstars. Manuela Hoelterhoff starts off by discussing Rossini's Cinderella opera, La Cenerentola, which she then uses as a recur ring metaphor throughout the book. Her description is accurate wh en she calls it music that dances, whispers, charms and dazzles f rom beginning to end. But if one substitutes prose for music in t hat quote, she might well be writing about Cinderella & Company. Hoelterhoff's style is deliciously appropriate for her chosen su bject, the world of mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. It is even mor e suited to the story's background: the larger-than-life style of the world's great opera houses and the colorful personalities of many people found there--onstage, backstage, and even in the aud ience. In terms of eccentricity, Bartoli does not stand out; she has a fair share of phobias (flying, computers, microphones), and she cancels performances more frequently than her fans would lik e, but her primary interest is musical: a voice, not very powerfu l but beautiful, which she uses with a fine sense of bel canto st yle, considerable acting skill, and a careful choice of the right music. Much of the book's appeal lies in its descriptions of pe ople, which tend to be short, pungent, and devastatingly on targe t: Maria Callas, the queen of whatever opera company she wasn't f euding with; conductor Herbert von Karajan, who had a reputation, entirely deserved, as a voice killer; baritone Bryn Terfel, a gu y with the body of Meat Loaf and an exuberant performing style; a gent-publicist Herbert Breslin, a motor-mouthed, bullet-headed .. . egomaniac ... I used to go through the obituary section of the Times looking for his; Luciano Pavarotti, a crumbling monument; a nd lots more. --Joe McLellan From Publishers Weekly There aren' t many books about opera?or anything else, for that matter?that m ake you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first boo k, Hoelterhoff, who won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street Journal, had the bright idea of following superst ar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the conte mporary opera world. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?s he's pretty and charming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tin y repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordi ngs?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name o n which to hang as witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied wo rld as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weight and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and the adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missin g performances that make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?al l are recurring elements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the two years she followed Bartoli, to have been every where and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but e verything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sen se of the ridiculous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ backgro und, but she seems never to have encountered a musicians' union s he didn't hate, whereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars see m to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Infor mation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly There aren't many books abou t opera?or anything else, for that matter?that make you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first book, Hoelterhoff, w ho won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street J ournal, had the bright idea of following superstar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the contemporary opera wor ld. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?she's pretty and c harming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tiny repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordings?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name on which to hang a s witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied world as the gossip iest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weigh t and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and th e adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missing performances th at make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?all are recurring e lements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the tw o years she followed Bartoli, to have been everywhere and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but everything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sense of the ridicul ous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ background, but she seem s never to have encountered a musicians' union she didn't hate, w hereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars seem to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 fir st printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fro m Library Journal Several years ago, mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartol i was the hottest young opera singer around. Hoelterhoff, a membe r of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, where she re ceived a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism, follows Bartoli's career over a two-year period (October 1995 through October 1997 ), talking with the singer and her family, manager, colleagues, a nd rivals. The result is an affectionate if not always flattering look at a charmingly eccentric artist. The title, however, is so mewhat misleading; the Bartoli story in fact functions as a frame work for the author's cynical and witty observations. (Her accoun t of the recent eight-hour gala celebrating James Levine's 25th a nniversary at the Metropolitan Opera is not to be missed.) A grea t deal of attention is paid to other singers, including Renee Fle ming, Luciano Pavarotti (Mr. P.), and Roberto Alagna and Angela G heorghiu (The Love Couple). We learn about singers' fees, the rol e of record companies, and the harrowing life of a manager. The a uthor knows her subject well; hers is a delicious mix of gossip a nd insightful commentary. Highly recommended for public libraries .AKate McCaffrey, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, NY Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Wall Street Journ al music critic Hoelterhoff spent two years tracking the career o f Cecilia Bartoli, the Roman mezzo-soprano whose way with bel can to repertoire, Rossini's Cenerentola (i.e., Cinderella) in partic ular, had made her America's favorite younger singer. Because thi s wasn't a matter of journalistic stalking and because Hoelterhof f cultivates friendly relations with the subjects of her critique s, she also dropped in on the careers of such other singers as up -and-comers soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna, th e late-blooming Rene e Fleming, the judiciously long-lasting Mire lla Freni, and the fabulous, faltering, fading Fat Man (Pavarotti --who else?). Her reporting on them makes utterly delicious readi ng--and not just for opera mavens--because she is wry and funny, because she loves singing and opera and describes their effects o n good listeners well, and because she is fascinated by these eno rmously temperamental people, whom she sees as justified in their egocentricities by the fact that they do regularly what is flat- out impossible for the rest of us. Ray Olson Review ...a hilario us, revealing, and sometimes malicious book about operatic intrig ue on and off the stage. -- The Boston Globe, Richard Dyer ...a naughtily witty tell-almost-all book (there is, thank God, no sex ) that has the further advantage of being true. -- The New York T imes Book Review, Terry Teachout ...the most perceptive and hila riously honest book on the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time. -- The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini Fro m the Publisher The most perceptive and hilariously honest book o n the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time... .For two years, Ms. Hoelterhoff had enviable access to Cecilia Ba rtoli and her circle: her mother, a former chorus soprano and sti ll Ms. Bartoli's most trusted vocal coach; her worldly Italian bo yfriend; her savvy manager, and a whole cast of recording executi ves and attendant conductors who pass through the story like comp rimario characters in an opera buffa....Happily for readers, Ms. Hoelterhoff introduces us to just about everyone operatic she met during those two years, interspersed with collected bits of wisd om and gossip....Ms. Hoelterhoff is such an interesting observer and beguiling writer that you eagerly follow her anywhere.....Kno wing of Ms. Hoelterhoff's reputation as an unsparing cirtic and r eporter, it's amazing that so many people in the business talked with her so freely, most notably the powerful manager and public relations maestro Herbert Breslin. [His] soliloquy on how he and his prime client, Luciano Pavarotti, showed everyone how real mon ey could be made in opera is breathtaking in its honesty and sham elessness.... The sections on Bartoli are the heart of the book. There is ample evidence of her superb musicianship, determination and unconventionally interesting career choices.....Ms. Bartoli' s career is a juggernaut, and one can only hope she keeps her bal ance. Ms. Hoelterhoff makes few predictions, but it is immensely fun an informative to read her account of the problems. -- Antho ny Tommasini, The New York Times Manuela Hoelterhoff has written a delightful and savvy book about the opera world and Cecilia B artoli--all world-class. It's a wonderful book! --Beverly Sills A naughtily witty tell-almost-all book that has the further advan tage of being true...Cinderella & Company is very good on the cir cuslike aspects of real-life opera: the near psychotic egomania a nd secret insecurity, the cruel inside jokes ('How many divas doe s it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.')...No less important is Hoelt erhoff's cold-eyed grasp of the effects big money has on grand op era...Her fang marks can be spotted on nearly every page. ...But what makes Cinderella & Company more than just a book-length bloo dletting is Hoelterhoff's unexpected sympathy for most of the sin gers about whom she writes. --Terry Teachout, The New York Times Hilarious...Opera buffs will munch happily [on] these nuggets. - -Jesse Birnbaum, Time As witty a picture as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for --Publishers Weekly I couldn't put the book down...At its center is a sympathetic, warm-hearted portrait of one of the most gifted singers of today...But Cecilia Bartoli is seen in gossipy context: every big name in the mad world of oper a is here--Pavarotti, Tebaldi, Domingo, Levine, The Alagnas--and few escape Hoelterhoff's eagle eye or her wit, as dry and sparkli ng as the best champagne. --Rodney Milnes, editor of Opera Magazi ne and chief opera critic of the London Times Vastly entertainin g...enormously readable, often hilarious...Hoelterhoff puts her f ormidable critical abilities to work in combination with an unspa ring eye for foibles, a sharp ear for first-rate gossip, and a ra conteur's gift. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden From the Inside Flap A wickedly funny look at opera today--the f euds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young m ezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's signature role, and Cinderell a & Company tells the fairy-tale story of her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fiat was the coach of choic e. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, the starlit nights and nai l-chewing days are all part of a narrative that shows Bartoli reh earsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her viv acity and dazzling virtuosity. Along the way, Hoelterhoff gives, Knopf, 1998, 2.75, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar., Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966, 0, London: Blink Publishing. Very Good-. 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading creases to slightly cocked spine, slight red nail varnish spill to front cover with minor loss to cover gilding. ; Paperback original, first printing with full number line, 2018. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Richard Evans with photos by Micael Ochs and Amalie R. Rothschild. ; Photographs; 352 pages; Autobiography of the voice of a generation, who didn't die before he got old... ., Blink Publishing, 2018, 3, Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition with typical reading wear to cover and spine. Pages are yelllowing., Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10, 2.5, 1994. 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Die neue Richtung wird dah.er zuweilen auch als ""Mikro ökonomische Fundierung der makroökonomischen Theorie"" bezeichnet, z.B. in Harcourt (1977) und Weintraub (1977). Trotz der Zielsetzung, Ungleichgewichte zu analysieren, ist die methodische Vorgehensweise weitgehend die einer statischen und komparativ statischen Gleichgewichtsanalyse. Um die neue Richtung einerseits von Ungleichgewichtsansätzen im Sinne einer dynamischen Theorie und andererseits von der Allgemeinen Gleichgewichtstheorie abzugrenzen, hat sich für diese Analysemethode der Begriff des temporären Gleichgewichts eingebür~ert. Die Richtung selbst firmiert in neuerer Zeit unter dem Etikett ""Neue Makroökonomik"". Sie hat mit Böhm (1980) und Rothschild (1981) ""inzwischen Eingang auch in die 1 deutschsprachige Lehrbuchliteratur gefunden. Die' Richtung der Neuen Makroökonomik wird im wesentlichen durch folgende drei Punkte charakterisiert. - Die Annahme flexibler, stets markträumender Preise wird aufge geben. ., 0, New World Library, 2000-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. 0.9000 in x 7.8000 in x 5.3000 in. Unread. Scuffed DJ. Signed and inscribed by the author on the page opposite the title page: Jackie, Love and Light, Joel Rothschild. Thank you for all you do. JR. From the DJ flap: Book is the extraordinary true story of two friends, both living with AIDS, who made a pact: whoever died first would try to contact the other., New World Library, 2000-02-01, 5, 1997. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1997, 8°, 572 S. mit zahlr. s/w-Abb. und Illustr., illustr. original Pappband, Buchrücken oben ein wenig bestoßen, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar (L) INHALT:1200 Jahre Frankfurt am Main - Sechs Vorträge: Wolfgang KLÖTZER: 794. Karl der Große und Frankfurt am Main - Grundlage der Stadtentwicklung / Fred SCHWIND: 1389. Frankfurts Niederlage bei Kronberg/Eschborn - Städtische Selbstbehauptung im dynastischen Umfeld / Karl DIENST: 1524/1533. Die Reformation - Reichsstadt zwischen katholischem Kaiser und protestantischen Interessen / Rainer KOCH: 1612-1616. Der Fettmilchaufstand - Sozialer Sprengstoff für die Bürgerschaft / Gerhard SCHUCK: 1814-1816. Die Konstitution der Freien Stadt. Zwischen Ancien Regime und Liberalisierung / Wilfried FORSTMANN: 1866. Anmerkungen zu einem Epochenjahr der neueren Frankfurter Geschichte --//-- Dagmar WENDLER: Bodenfunde in Frankfurt-Harheim / Barbara DÖLEMEYER: Helenopolis - Phantastisches Frankfur / Claudius Andreas MASSINGER: Die englische Emigrantengemeinde in Frankfurt am Main 1554-1559 / Jutta E. 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Abgebildet sind die Familie Rothschild, Mayer Carl von Rothschild, Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, Rudolf Sulzbach, Georg Speyer, Charles Hallgarten, Henry Budge, Jakob Henry Schiff, Isaac Dreyfus und Wilhelm Merton.., Frankfurt, Kramer, 1969., 0, Sotheby's Photographs Auction, New York, 3 October 2012Publisher: Sotheby's (2012)Item Weight: 2 poundsPaperback: 200 pages8.2 x 10.6 inchesSotheby's October 3rd Photographs auction in New York features a range of material from the 19th to 21st centuries. Strong examples of Surrealism by Hans Bellmer, Jindrich Styrsky, Man Ray, and Raoul Ubac are on offer. An eclectic selection of daguerreotypes from the 1850s to the present day is available, from a portrait of Commodore Matthew C. Perry to a study of Butterflies by Adam Fuss. The auction includes a rare suite of 30 mammoth-plate albumen prints of Yosemite Valley by Charles Leander Weed. A complete bound set of Alfred Stieglitz's photographic quarterly, Camera Work, is on offer, with all but the last issue coming originally from the collection of photographer Arthur Siegel.Modernism is represented in works by Paul Strand, Imogen Cunningham, and in four Edward Weston photographs originally purchased by Ichiro Misumi from The Museum of Modern Art and from Weston himself. Three-dimensional works such as Brett Weston's carved wood sculpture of An Abstraction of a School Desk and A Pair of Needlepoint Cushions by George Platt Lynes add some unexpected variety to the auction. Also available is a selection of portfolios by Eliot Porter, Brett Weston, Louis Faurer, and Elliott Erwitt. A mural-sized print of Peter Beard's Rothschild's Giraffes from The Uganda Line presents a rich array of color illustration that typifies Beard's work. Contemporary offerings include Cindy Sherman's Untitled #19 and Untitled #83, as well as works by Doug and Mike Starn, Marilyn Minter, and Robert Polidori, among others.Hans Bellmer Swlf-Portrait With Die Puppe on coverThis arresting and enigmatic Hans Bellmer self-portrait is from the series of photographs he made in 1933 and '34, in Berlin, documenting the construction of his first Doll figure. Bellmer published this image in his 1934 book, Die Puppe, which included 10 sequentially-ordered photographs of the figure's creation. Also in that year, he sent these photographs, through his cousin, to Paris, where they were shown to André Breton, from whose collection this print comes. Breton was immediately impressed, and with Paul Eluard, published a suite of 18 Bellmer photographs, including this self-portrait, in the Winter 1934 number of the Surrealist journal Minotaure, under the title 'Variations sur le montage d'une mineure articulée' ('Variations on the assemblage of an articulated minor'). Back cover - Adam Fuss Untitled (from the series My Ghost)This truly amazing reference book contains 271 brilliant important lots with: photo`s, descriptions and estimates----------------------Sotheby's is a British-founded American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles. 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In July 2016, Chinese insurance company Taikang Life became Sotheby's largest shareholder. In June 2019, Sotheby's announced that it was being acquired by French-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi at a 61% market premium. Drahi's son, Nathan Drahi, is the managing director of Sotheby's Asia., Sotheby's, 2002, 3, Books on Demand. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Books on Demand, 6, 2000. Frankfurt am Main, Societäts Verlag, 2000, 8°, 111 S. mit Farb- und s/w-Abb., Illustr., Kunstwerk- und Dokumentenabbildungen etc., Text: Deutsch, illustr. original Pappband, sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar. Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.), 2000, 0, Leipzig, Spamer 1909.. 2 Bl. Titelei, 442 S., 3 Bl. Vlgsanz., mit 50 Text-Abb., OLn. m. schw.-gld. Deckelzeichn. u. Rahmenleiste, die ersten u. die letzten beiden Blätter etwas stockfl., ansonsten sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar der beliebten Darstellung. Dem Nachdruck in Qualität der Abbildungen sowie der verwendeten Materialien überlegen. Inhalt: Florentinische Handelsfürsten aus dem Zeitalter der Renaissance. Die Welser und Fugger in Augsburg. Thomas Gresham. Gabriel Julien Ouvrard. Das Haus Rothschild. Krupp, der Kanonenkönig und Industriefürst. Die Siemens, ein Unternehmer- und Gründergeschlecht. zwie alte New Yorker Patrizierhäuser (Die Vanderbilts. Die Familie Astor). Zwie moderne Handeslfürsten der Vereinigten Staaten (Andrew Carnegie. John Rockefeller). Cecil Rhodes, der "Napoleon von Südafrika°., Leipzig, Spamer 1909., 0, Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999. . 8°, 408 Seiten. mit mehreren Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Orig.Pappband mit OSU., Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999., 0<
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Vahlen Frankfurt 1963. HALBLEINEN, 210 gebräunte Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, auf keine Markierungen… Mehr…
Vahlen Frankfurt 1963. HALBLEINEN, 210 gebräunte Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, auf keine Markierungen/Anmerkungen, das Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Vahlen Frankfurt 1963, 0, (Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Zürich: Pendo-Verlag, 2003. hardcover. gebraucht, sehr gut Illustrierter Original-Pappband. SEHR GUTES EXEMPLAR.. 21 x 14 cm. Wir schließen unser Ladengeschäft, die Buchscheune zum Ende September. Auf alle Artikel in der Scheune(nicht auf das Angebot im Internet) erhalten Sie ab sofort 50% Rabatt. 01796 Struppen, Hauptstr.59, (Mo.-Fr. 9-16 Uhr), Pendo-Verlag, 2003, 2.5, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921, 0, Knopf. Very Good. 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 1998. 259 pages. dj has small rip. Price clipped.<br>A wickedly funny l ook at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, d ivine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world 's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuel a Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cec ilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's sign ature role, and Cinderella & Company tells the fairy-tale story o f her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fi at was the coach of choice. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, t he starlit nights and nail-chewing days are all part of a narrati ve that shows Bartoli rehearsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her vivacity and dazzling virtuosity. Along th e way, Hoelterhoff gives us an unusually vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the opera world. The first stop is Houston, where Bartol i brightens a droopy Cenerentola production; later scenes follow her to Disney World and to the Metropolitan Opera, where a fidget y cast awaits the flight-phobic mezzo's arrival for Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Traveling to Santa Fe, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Londo n, Hoelterhoff drops in on opening nights and boardroom meetings, talks to managers and agents, describes where the money comes fr om, and survives one of the longest galas in history. Here too a re tantalizing glimpses of divinities large and small: Kathleen B attle's famously chilly limousine ride; Plácido Domingo flying th rough three time zones to step into the boots of an ailing Otello ; Luciano Pavarotti aiming for high C in his twilight years. And we meet the present players in Bartoli's world: Roberto Alagna an d Angela Gheorghiu, a.k.a. the Love Couple; Jane Eaglen, the Wagn erian web potato monitoring her cyberspace fan mail; the appealin g soprano Renée Fleming, finally on the brink of stardom. At onc e informed and accessible, Cinderella & Company brings the world of grand opera into sharp focus--right up to the last glimpse of Cecilia Bartoli waving triumphantly from Cinderella's wedding cak e. Editorial Reviews The author defines her style at the begin ning of this bright, gossipy book about one of opera's youngest s uperstars. Manuela Hoelterhoff starts off by discussing Rossini's Cinderella opera, La Cenerentola, which she then uses as a recur ring metaphor throughout the book. Her description is accurate wh en she calls it music that dances, whispers, charms and dazzles f rom beginning to end. But if one substitutes prose for music in t hat quote, she might well be writing about Cinderella & Company. Hoelterhoff's style is deliciously appropriate for her chosen su bject, the world of mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. It is even mor e suited to the story's background: the larger-than-life style of the world's great opera houses and the colorful personalities of many people found there--onstage, backstage, and even in the aud ience. In terms of eccentricity, Bartoli does not stand out; she has a fair share of phobias (flying, computers, microphones), and she cancels performances more frequently than her fans would lik e, but her primary interest is musical: a voice, not very powerfu l but beautiful, which she uses with a fine sense of bel canto st yle, considerable acting skill, and a careful choice of the right music. Much of the book's appeal lies in its descriptions of pe ople, which tend to be short, pungent, and devastatingly on targe t: Maria Callas, the queen of whatever opera company she wasn't f euding with; conductor Herbert von Karajan, who had a reputation, entirely deserved, as a voice killer; baritone Bryn Terfel, a gu y with the body of Meat Loaf and an exuberant performing style; a gent-publicist Herbert Breslin, a motor-mouthed, bullet-headed .. . egomaniac ... I used to go through the obituary section of the Times looking for his; Luciano Pavarotti, a crumbling monument; a nd lots more. --Joe McLellan From Publishers Weekly There aren' t many books about opera?or anything else, for that matter?that m ake you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first boo k, Hoelterhoff, who won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street Journal, had the bright idea of following superst ar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the conte mporary opera world. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?s he's pretty and charming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tin y repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordi ngs?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name o n which to hang as witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied wo rld as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weight and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and the adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missin g performances that make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?al l are recurring elements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the two years she followed Bartoli, to have been every where and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but e verything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sen se of the ridiculous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ backgro und, but she seems never to have encountered a musicians' union s he didn't hate, whereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars see m to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Infor mation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly There aren't many books abou t opera?or anything else, for that matter?that make you laugh out loud, but this is one of them. In her first book, Hoelterhoff, w ho won a Pulitzer for her cultural criticism at the Wall Street J ournal, had the bright idea of following superstar Bartoli around for a time to take the temperature of the contemporary opera wor ld. Bartoli herself isn't all that interesting?she's pretty and c harming, has a superb coloratura mezzo but a tiny repertoire, and has made her reputation mostly by showy recordings?but it really doesn't matter. She is just a box-office name on which to hang a s witty and bitchy a picture of this rarefied world as the gossip iest opera lover could ask for. Divas struggling with their weigh t and declining reputations; grasping managers; brutally cynical opera officials; Pavarotti fighting for his lost top notes and th e adrenaline of ovations; and excuses for missing performances th at make the dog ate my homework seem inspired?all are recurring e lements in Hoelterhoff's delicious portrait. She seems, in the tw o years she followed Bartoli, to have been everywhere and talked to everyone who counts in the opera world; but everything she is told gets filtered through her scintillating sense of the ridicul ous. Only one quibble: It may be her WSJ background, but she seem s never to have encountered a musicians' union she didn't hate, w hereas the ludicrous sums paid to some stars seem to warrant only a dismissive shrug. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. 50,000 fir st printing. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fro m Library Journal Several years ago, mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartol i was the hottest young opera singer around. Hoelterhoff, a membe r of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, where she re ceived a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism, follows Bartoli's career over a two-year period (October 1995 through October 1997 ), talking with the singer and her family, manager, colleagues, a nd rivals. The result is an affectionate if not always flattering look at a charmingly eccentric artist. The title, however, is so mewhat misleading; the Bartoli story in fact functions as a frame work for the author's cynical and witty observations. (Her accoun t of the recent eight-hour gala celebrating James Levine's 25th a nniversary at the Metropolitan Opera is not to be missed.) A grea t deal of attention is paid to other singers, including Renee Fle ming, Luciano Pavarotti (Mr. P.), and Roberto Alagna and Angela G heorghiu (The Love Couple). We learn about singers' fees, the rol e of record companies, and the harrowing life of a manager. The a uthor knows her subject well; hers is a delicious mix of gossip a nd insightful commentary. Highly recommended for public libraries .AKate McCaffrey, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, NY Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Wall Street Journ al music critic Hoelterhoff spent two years tracking the career o f Cecilia Bartoli, the Roman mezzo-soprano whose way with bel can to repertoire, Rossini's Cenerentola (i.e., Cinderella) in partic ular, had made her America's favorite younger singer. Because thi s wasn't a matter of journalistic stalking and because Hoelterhof f cultivates friendly relations with the subjects of her critique s, she also dropped in on the careers of such other singers as up -and-comers soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna, th e late-blooming Rene e Fleming, the judiciously long-lasting Mire lla Freni, and the fabulous, faltering, fading Fat Man (Pavarotti --who else?). Her reporting on them makes utterly delicious readi ng--and not just for opera mavens--because she is wry and funny, because she loves singing and opera and describes their effects o n good listeners well, and because she is fascinated by these eno rmously temperamental people, whom she sees as justified in their egocentricities by the fact that they do regularly what is flat- out impossible for the rest of us. Ray Olson Review ...a hilario us, revealing, and sometimes malicious book about operatic intrig ue on and off the stage. -- The Boston Globe, Richard Dyer ...a naughtily witty tell-almost-all book (there is, thank God, no sex ) that has the further advantage of being true. -- The New York T imes Book Review, Terry Teachout ...the most perceptive and hila riously honest book on the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time. -- The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini Fro m the Publisher The most perceptive and hilariously honest book o n the making and marketing of opera to come along in some time... .For two years, Ms. Hoelterhoff had enviable access to Cecilia Ba rtoli and her circle: her mother, a former chorus soprano and sti ll Ms. Bartoli's most trusted vocal coach; her worldly Italian bo yfriend; her savvy manager, and a whole cast of recording executi ves and attendant conductors who pass through the story like comp rimario characters in an opera buffa....Happily for readers, Ms. Hoelterhoff introduces us to just about everyone operatic she met during those two years, interspersed with collected bits of wisd om and gossip....Ms. Hoelterhoff is such an interesting observer and beguiling writer that you eagerly follow her anywhere.....Kno wing of Ms. Hoelterhoff's reputation as an unsparing cirtic and r eporter, it's amazing that so many people in the business talked with her so freely, most notably the powerful manager and public relations maestro Herbert Breslin. [His] soliloquy on how he and his prime client, Luciano Pavarotti, showed everyone how real mon ey could be made in opera is breathtaking in its honesty and sham elessness.... The sections on Bartoli are the heart of the book. There is ample evidence of her superb musicianship, determination and unconventionally interesting career choices.....Ms. Bartoli' s career is a juggernaut, and one can only hope she keeps her bal ance. Ms. Hoelterhoff makes few predictions, but it is immensely fun an informative to read her account of the problems. -- Antho ny Tommasini, The New York Times Manuela Hoelterhoff has written a delightful and savvy book about the opera world and Cecilia B artoli--all world-class. It's a wonderful book! --Beverly Sills A naughtily witty tell-almost-all book that has the further advan tage of being true...Cinderella & Company is very good on the cir cuslike aspects of real-life opera: the near psychotic egomania a nd secret insecurity, the cruel inside jokes ('How many divas doe s it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.')...No less important is Hoelt erhoff's cold-eyed grasp of the effects big money has on grand op era...Her fang marks can be spotted on nearly every page. ...But what makes Cinderella & Company more than just a book-length bloo dletting is Hoelterhoff's unexpected sympathy for most of the sin gers about whom she writes. --Terry Teachout, The New York Times Hilarious...Opera buffs will munch happily [on] these nuggets. - -Jesse Birnbaum, Time As witty a picture as the gossipiest opera lover could ask for --Publishers Weekly I couldn't put the book down...At its center is a sympathetic, warm-hearted portrait of one of the most gifted singers of today...But Cecilia Bartoli is seen in gossipy context: every big name in the mad world of oper a is here--Pavarotti, Tebaldi, Domingo, Levine, The Alagnas--and few escape Hoelterhoff's eagle eye or her wit, as dry and sparkli ng as the best champagne. --Rodney Milnes, editor of Opera Magazi ne and chief opera critic of the London Times Vastly entertainin g...enormously readable, often hilarious...Hoelterhoff puts her f ormidable critical abilities to work in combination with an unspa ring eye for foibles, a sharp ear for first-rate gossip, and a ra conteur's gift. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden From the Inside Flap A wickedly funny look at opera today--the f euds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young m ezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world. Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's signature role, and Cinderell a & Company tells the fairy-tale story of her life, which started on a modest street in Rome where the Fiat was the coach of choic e. The lucky break, the meteoric rise, the starlit nights and nai l-chewing days are all part of a narrative that shows Bartoli reh earsing, playing, traveling, eating, and charming us with her viv acity and dazzling virtuosity. Along the way, Hoelterhoff gives, Knopf, 1998, 2.75, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar., Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966, 0, Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition with typical reading wear to cover and spine. Pages are yelllowing., Red Anvil Press, 2011-01-10, 2.5, 1994. Erstausgabe, Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig, Insel Verlag, 1994, 8°, 287 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen, original Leineneinband (Hardcover) mit original Schutzumschlag, sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar (ffmK5) im Einzelnen: Christian Egenolff / Adam Elsheimer / Matthäus Merian / Maria Sibylla Merian / Johann Christian Senckenberg / Mayer Amschel Rothschild / Catharina Elisabeth Goethe / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Friedrich Maximilian Klinger / Karoline von Günderode / Marianne von Willemer / Bettina von Arnim / Ludwig Börne / Arthur Schopenhauer / Eduard Rüppell / Friedrich Wöhler / Heinrich Hoffmann / Karl Gutzkow / Friedrich Stoltze / Leopold Sonnemann / Paul Ehrlich / Otto Hahn / Ernst May / Paul Hindesmith / Theodor W. Adorno / Anne Frank Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.), 1994, 0, Books on Demand. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Books on Demand, 6, Wespennest, Wien, 1996.., Wespennest, Wien, 1996., 0, New World Library, 2000-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. 0.9000 in x 7.8000 in x 5.3000 in. Unread. Scuffed DJ. Signed and inscribed by the author on the page opposite the title page: Jackie, Love and Light, Joel Rothschild. Thank you for all you do. JR. From the DJ flap: Book is the extraordinary true story of two friends, both living with AIDS, who made a pact: whoever died first would try to contact the other., New World Library, 2000-02-01, 5, Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999. . 8°, 408 Seiten. mit mehreren Abbildungen auf Tafeln. 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Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. - Erstausgabe
1999
ISBN: 5fbcfff2c97eae32c90e56548ae8ba1c
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(Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsisc… Mehr…
(Hannover 1971). 2. verb. Aufl. Illustr. farb. OKart. - Probl. des Judentums., 1971)., 0, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966. Schriftenreihe der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Probleme des Judentums Band 2. Paperbackausgabe, 96 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar., Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 1966, 0, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:, Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Walther Rothschild, 1921, 0, 1994. 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Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. : - gebrauchtes Buch
1999, ISBN: 5fbcfff2c97eae32c90e56548ae8ba1c
Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999. . 8°, 408 Seiten. mit mehreren Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Orig.Pappband mit OSU., Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999., 0
Die Rothschilds in Frankreich. Geschichte einer Dynastie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Utz. - gebrauchtes Buch
1999, ISBN: 5fbcfff2c97eae32c90e56548ae8ba1c
Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999. . 8°, 408 Seiten. mit mehreren Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Orig.Pappband mit OSU., Hamburg, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999., 0
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