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01761aam a2200277Ki 4500 001 7C091270300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 210318t20202020nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1098323084 020 $a 9781098323080 035 $a (OCoLC)1242234948 040 $a AXH $b eng $c AXH $d AXH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d KAY $d SILO 082 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Strasfogel, Ian, $e author. 245 10 $a Operaland / $c Ian Strasfogel. 264 1 $a New York : $b Musico Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 335 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a OPERALAND follows Richie Verdun, a funny, fearless little dynamo, as he enters the glamorous and treacherous world of opera facing almost impossible odds. He's in his early forties, unusually old for a beginner, and without the benefit of either musical or theatrical training. To make matters worse, this irrepressible fireplug of a man is overly fond of inappropriate, almost infantile jokes that are wildly out of place in his sophisticated new surroundings. We first meet him as a hustling car salesman in upper Michigan, deeply devoted to his literate and caring wife Kit and their three young children. When his family urges him to try his luck as an operatic tenor, he enters a world that is utterly foreign to him. The struggle is intense and rejections proliferate, but Richie's energy and ambition never desert him. A seemingly ordinary man unleashes his inner artist and discovers a new way of life. 650 0 $a Middle-aged men $v Fiction. $9 382384 650 0 $a Male singers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Opera $v Fiction. $9 221007 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7C091270300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search