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title: "Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography (Amadeus) Hardcover – March 1, 2003"
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# Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography (Amadeus) Hardcover – March 1, 2003

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Glorious Read! A Page-turner.
  

*by E***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2007*

To my abject shame, I confess that prior to reading this biography, I knew Ponselle only vaguely as a "name" from the Golden Age. (Since reading the book, I've acquired dozens of her recordings and viewed her screen test!) What great fun this book is! And what a life to chronicle. Miss Ponselle is shown to be a complex, fabulous, contradictory, and sometimes infuriating human being, a woman of enormous stamina and determination. Her struggles would seem trite and unbelievable in one of those Hollywood faux-bio movies once so popular, yet she did struggle and triumph in the best screen tradition. Without resorting to any phony sensationalism, the author skillfully kept me poised on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what was going to happen next. This may have been partly because I was unfamiliar with Ponselle's career, but I think it would be true for all readers. A rich and totally fulfilling book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Rosa Ponselle a biography
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2013*

I enjoyed the book. I wanted to know Ms Ponselle, as I hade never read anything about her life. Being a Maryland resident for a number of years, it was very intereesting knowing she lived in Maryland and enjoyed it very much.She also had a number of famous people that she speaks about making it interesting. If you are an opera fan or a Ponselle fan you will enjoy the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Rosa Ponselle - A centenary Biography by James Drake
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 25, 2013*

His first Ponselle Biography , mostly authenticated by the late Hugh Johns was excellent . You should be advertising and releasingthe Doubleday biography of the Great Ponselle . Drake , who DID Not know Ponselle , having only visited her less thanfive times during the last few years of her life in Baltimore , relied on Elayne Duke and Hugh Johns to shepherd him through the first biography and arrange for his very few and unannounced visits to her home . Please release the FIRST biography !  Elayne Duke

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