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In an illustrated follow-up to her 1992 book, Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art, more than thirty of today's most prominent divas discuss their musical and personal challenges and successes, alongside the author's commentary. UP.

By interviewing 26 great women singers of the past three decades, [Matheopoulos] hopes to present a survey of the diva's art. There's a lot of talk oftechnique and training, of finding the right repertoire and of tackling it. .. . [But] there's little sense of what is involved in making words and music into drama. Nor is there any indication that opera is a vast industry involving singers, opera houses and their staff, record companies and, through subsidy, governments. Instead, a few brief words on the need for a settled family life are all we get in the way of 'context'. . . . While writing about opera remains at the level of connoisseur's tittle-tattle, opera will continue to be seen as nonsense. . . . But, for all its excesses, opera is not nonsense, and it requires a critical engagement that . . . [this book is not] prepared to make.