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Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Simon Callow plunges headlong into Wagner's world to discover what it was like to be Wagner, and to be around one of music's most influential figures. A hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never bee ...Show more
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggres ...Show more
Being an Actor by Simon Callow
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Few actors are more eloquent, honest or entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow. Being an Actor traces his stage journey from the letter he wrote to Laurence Olivier that led him to his first job, to his triumph as Mozart in the original production of Amadeus. This new editi ...Show more
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives
An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his early years as a child entertainer in Po ...Show more
Classical Destinations II: Great Cities and Their Music by Simon Callow
$49.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Mixes travel, history, music, philosophy and whimsy in a spectacular European odyssey exploring the lives of many of the romantic composers including Chopin, Elgar, Liszt, Rachmaninov and others.
Orson Welles : Hello Americans by Simon Callow
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When 'Citizen Kane', his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywoo ...Show more
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