Download or read book The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs written by James Camner and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book devoted to photographs of opera singers: not operas, not opera houses, but the stars of opera, the personalities who bring operas to life and to whom audiences and composers owe an everlasting debt of gratitude. In assembling the photos, we tried to find as many examples of great and near-great singers as possible, dating back as early as possible. In general, we did not include singers whose careers began after World War II. - Introduction.