Asile Hereditaire

The Life and Career of John O'Sullivan

by Francois Nouvion

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Softcover

£18.95

Softcover

£18.95

Book Details

Language : Multiple languages

Publication Date : 18/10/2012

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 511

ISBN : 9781477151235

About the Book

Francois Nouvion is well known collector and author of operatic subjects. He was born in Zurich and is a US citizen. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and at Stanford University in Palo Alto. He worked mostly in the semiconductor testing equipment fi eld and sold US Equipment from Russia to Tokyo. Early on he became very interested in Opera and developed his knowledge in singing from the reissues by Guy Dumazert. He currently maintains a comprehensive website on tenors (historicaltenors.com) and a YouTube channel on Historical tenors. Although his interest on Irish-French tenor John O`Sullivan dates from his early days, he fi nally started researching the tenor`s career in the early 90s after meeting O’Sullivan’s children: Jacques, Colette and Raymonde. After much work contacting the different libraries all over the world, with the Paris and Marseilles libraries being the most diffi cult to work with, he fi nally started writing the O`Sullivan biography in 2007. It is now published. He only regrets that Jacques O’Sullivan, the tenor`s son, did not live to witness the publication.

About the Author

Francois Nouvion is well known collector and author of operatic subjects. He was born in Zurich and is a US citizen. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and at Stanford University in Palo Alto. He worked mostly in the semiconductor testing equipment field and sold US Equipment from Russia to Tokyo. Early on he became very interested in Opera and developed his knowledge in singing from the reissues by Guy Dumazert. He currently maintains a comprehensive website on tenors (historicaltenors.com) and a YouTube channel on Historical tenors. Although his interest on Irish-French tenor John O`Sullivan dates from his early days, he finally started researching the tenor`s career in the early 90s after meeting O'Sullivan's children: Jacques, Colette and Raymonde. After much work contacting the different libraries all over the world, with the Paris and Marseilles libraries being the most difficult to work with, he finally started writing the O`Sullivan biography in 2007. It is now published. He only regrets that Jacques O'Sullivan, the tenor`s son, did not live to witness the publication

Customer Reviews

"It so happened that not very long time ago I found myself in some kind of a Kafkaesque predicament, which is probably not as serious as it is odd and funny. But in a short while you will see that this has happened not only to me, but to many others, and most recently to Ashot Arakelyan and his blog forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.com.

I will start from the very beginning. Brace yourself. Unlike somewhat (understatement) maniacal Nouvion, I was never that much into this whole thing as to save e-mails that I thought proved my points, to mark some dates on the calendar, to keep ip-addresses, to start spying on him all over the internet, but I think I remember the most important parts of the story, which isn't at all so terribly complicated as Nouvion's somewhat (understatement) paranoiac mind pumped it up to be.

Okay then. Having a long time interest in singers of the Soviet Era, and some interest in Italian classical singers, one day I was surfing the net and came by an interesting site called ""Historical Tenors"". This site had a sizable although not very well ordered (understatement) ""Eastern-European-Tenors"" section (including soviet ones) and it was nice to take a look at it from time to time and come back to it.

I even wrote an email to the owner of the site - this Francois Nouvion - congratulating him for his nice work, and asking him about two things - the first was the russian collector that helped him with the pages of the soviet tenors, thinking it could be an interesting person to talk to about my hobby; and about the daughter of one of the soviet singers that gave Nouvion the information for her father's page, which I found intriguing.

All was fine. Nouvion answered in a civilized manner, telling me that he has not heard from the russian collector for years, and giving me the mail of the daughter of the singer whose biography I found special.

carlo
"It so happened that not very long time ago I found myself in some kind of a Kafkaesque predicament, which is probably not as serious as it is odd and funny. But in a short while you will see that this has happened not only to me, but to many others, and most recently to Ashot Arakelyan and his blog forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.com.

I will start from the very beginning. Brace yourself. Unlike somewhat (understatement) maniacal Nouvion, I was never that much into this whole thing as to save e-mails that I thought proved my points, to mark some dates on the calendar, to keep ip-addresses, to start spying on him all over the internet, but I think I remember the most important parts of the story, which isn't at all so terribly complicated as Nouvion's somewhat (understatement) paranoiac mind pumped it up to be.

Okay then. Having a long time interest in singers of the Soviet Era, and some interest in Italian classical singers, one day I was surfing the net and came by an interesting site called ""Historical Tenors"". This site had a sizable although not very well ordered (understatement) ""Eastern-European-Tenors"" section (including soviet ones) and it was nice to take a look at it from time to time and come back to it.

I even wrote an email to the owner of the site - this Francois Nouvion - congratulating him for his nice work, and asking him about two things - the first was the russian collector that helped him with the pages of the soviet tenors, thinking it could be an interesting person to talk to about my hobby; and about the daughter of one of the soviet singers that gave Nouvion the information for her father's page, which I found intriguing.

All was fine. Nouvion answered in a civilized manner, telling me that he has not heard from the russian collector for years, and giving me the mail of the daughter of the singer whose biography I found special.

About the same time and in the same random manner I

carlo

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