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Aida Reprint Edition
Author(s): Leontyne Price (Author), Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date: January 1, 1997
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 32 pages
- ISBN-10: 0152015469
- ISBN-13: 9780152015466
Book Description
Retells the story of Verdi’s opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
There’s no voice like that of opera singer Leontyne Price, and in this retelling of Aida, published in paperback for the first time, we discover that her writer’s voice is equally moving. This tale of the Ethiopian princess-turned-slave, her soldier lover, and their inevitable tragedy is a favorite of Price, who reveals her feeling of sisterhood with the doomed Aida in the book’s afterword. Price brings just enough distance to this story of love, jealousy, war, envy, and suicide to temper her passion. Telling the tale of Aida, one of the world’s most famous–and tragic–operas, in appropriate language and tone is a task to which Price is more than equal.
