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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral

Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral

Arral, Blanche

Hardcover

Series: Amadeus

Biographies GeneralMusiciansOpera

ISBN10: 1574670778
ISBN13: 9781574670776
Publisher: Amadeus
Published: Mar 1 2003
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Born in Belgium as Clara Lardinois, the youngest of 17 children, Blanche Arral, was destined for a life wilder than fiction. During her travels, Arral befriended such legendary figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Harry Houdini, Victor Hugo, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns and Jack London, who based a character on her in his book Smoke Bellew. In Russia she met Rasputin, and in Turkey, the sultan Abdülhamid II. She describes her recording sessions with Thomas Edison and her run-ins with the difficult Nellie Melba.

Writer and opera fan Ira Glackens discovered her living in a small New Jersey apartment and persuaded her to record her extraordinary stories. More than 60 years later, editor William R. Moran has confirmed the veracity of Arral's account and annotated this extraordinary memoir.

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