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This summer I’m reading Eleanor Steber: An Autobiography

A fascinating autobiography that delivers both on the diva anecdotes and on intelligent artistic observations about the singer’s life.

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Eleanor Steber: An Autobiography, with Marcia Sloat

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The discussions of coaching German lieder with Lotte Lehmann and the difficult process of acquiring her technique are worth the price of admission, never mind the stories about drinking all the way through the night before Figaro rehearsals, carousing at Colorado gay bars, and having a torrid affair with a Croatian pianist who spoke no English.

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