Does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Originally Posted by Gretchen
Theatre by W.S.Maugham who was a prolific novelist and dramatist.
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Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy have scenes that occur at operas.
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Phantom of The Opera
The Painted Girls is quite enjoyable. Very beautifully (sometimes a bit over the top) in terms of the writing, and a good treatment of belle-epoch Paris (and Degas' dirty mind).
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Proust's In Search of Lost Time has a number of rather stunning descriptions of the theatre and the art of acting. The narrators affinity for the actress Berma and his meandering thoughts upon stagecraft are quite sublime.
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