Author: DAVIS, RICHARD. Title: Anna Bishop: The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna.
Description: First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xiv, 314; portrait frontispiece, text with numerous b/w. drawings and illustrations, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Sydney; Currency Press; 1997. Anna Bishop, the rebellious wife of the English Mozart, Henry Bishop, eloped in 1839 with the dissolute French harpist Nicholas Bochsa and began an adventure lasting forty years. She and her lover survived snow and jungle, shipwreck and impassable mountains, bandits, cholera outbreaks and civil wars. She sang in the great opera houses and in makeshift venues in the outposts of civilisation. Toured Australia three times. Hers was a life that cannot even be imagined today.
Keywords: Biography Music History
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- Book number: 124895