I have just finished Gray's excellent book. A biography of Turner was LONG overdue and as well as being meticulously researched, it very much benefits from being written by someone who has the singer's perspective and who knew the subject personally.
@MCHEATH, I don't know if her final Turandots in 1948 or 49 were recorded, or if you mean a speech, but I'm afraid I don't have either. Check out the amazing things she sang at the Proms - Isolde's Act 1 Narration, The love duet, the Liebestod, Siegfried, Immolation, Abscheulicher, Ecco l'orrido campo.... and none of them seem to have been recorded. Tragic!
I have just finished Gray's excellent book. A biography of Turner was LONG overdue and as well as being meticulously researched, it very much benefits from being written by someone who has the singer's perspective and who knew the subject personally.
metman48 2 months ago
Apparantly there is a recording of the farewell somwhere out there. Have you read Linda Esther Grays book about Eva?
MCHEATH 2 months ago
Marvellous Do you have Eva's Farwell?
MCHEATH 2 months ago
@MCHEATH, I don't know if her final Turandots in 1948 or 49 were recorded, or if you mean a speech, but I'm afraid I don't have either. Check out the amazing things she sang at the Proms - Isolde's Act 1 Narration, The love duet, the Liebestod, Siegfried, Immolation, Abscheulicher, Ecco l'orrido campo.... and none of them seem to have been recorded. Tragic!
metman48 2 months ago