Biographies
Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts. John Frederick Cone. Portland OR: Amadeus Press, 1993.
Always First Class: The Career of Geraldine Farrar. Elizabeth Nash. Washington, DC: University Press of
America, 1981.
Catherine Hayes: The Hibernian Prima Donna. Basil Walsh. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000.
Galli-Curci’s Life of Song. C.E. Le Massena. Paebar: 1945; repr. Beverly Hills: Monitor Co., 1978.
“Gorgeous Sills.” By Garry Wills. The New York Review of Books, May 1, 1975.
Grand Opera Singers of To-day, The. Henry C. Lahee. Boston: L.C. Page, 1912. (Google digital edition.)
Great Singers, The: From the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time. Henry Pleasants. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1966.
Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale. Gladys Denny Schultz. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1962.
Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera’s Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944. Paul Fryer and Olga Usova. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & CO, 2004.
Last Prima Donnas, The. Lanfranco Rasponi, New York: Knopf, 1982.
Literary Lorgnette, The: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia. Julie A. Buckler. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2000.
Lost Divas. André Tubeuf. Trans. Nicholas Elliott. New York: Assouline, 2005.
Maria Callas: Sacred Monster. Stelios Galatopoulos. Simon and Schuster, NY: 1998.
Maria Malibran. A Biography of the Singer. Howard Bushnell. University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press; 1979.
Maria Malibran: Diva of the Romantic Age. April Fitzlyon. London: Souvenir Press, 1987.
Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva. Ann Blainey. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009.
Mary Garden. Michael T.R.B. Turnbull. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1997.
Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann. Michael Kater. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008.
Observations on the Florid Song, or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers. Pier. Francesco Tosi, trans.
Galliard. London: J. Wilcox, 1743. Repr. from 2 edition by William Reeves, London, 1905. (Google digital edition.)
Queen of Song: The Life of Henrietta Sontag. Frank Russell. New York: Exposition Press, 1964.
Queens of Song: being memoirs of some of the most Celebrated Female Vocalists who have appeared on the
lyric stage, from the earliest days of opera to the present time. Ellen Creathorne Clayton. London: Smith,
Elder and Co., MDCCCLXIII (1863). (Vols. 1 and 2; Google digital edition.)
Red Plush and Black Velvet: The Story of Melba and her Times. Joseph Wechsberg. Boston: Little, Brown,
1961.

Rosa Ponselle, American Diva. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1997.
Ring Resounding. John Culshawe. New York: Viking, 1967.
Scotto: More than a Diva. Renata Scotto and Octavio Roca. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1984.
“Sophie Arnould, 1740-1803.” Francis Rogers. The Musical Quarterly. New York: G. Schirmer. Vol. 6, 1920,
57-61.
Sophie Arnould, Actress and Wit. Robert Bruce Douglas, Adolphe Lalauze. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898.
(Google Digital edition).
St. Louis Woman. Helen Traubel. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959.
Sybil Sanderson Story, The: Requiem for a Diva. Jack Winsor Hansen. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press,
2005.
Tragédiennes de L’Opéra, Les: de Rose Caron à Fanny Heldy, Le Feu Sacré des Déesses du Palais Garnier, 1875-
1939. Exhibition catalog: la Bibliothèque-Musée du Palais Garnier. Paris: Albin Michel, 2011.