“Handel’s operas to a wider public” – Crime Novelist Donna Leon
Donna Leon
An interview from the series
“People who impart music”
In a few years the complete 42 operas of George Frideric Handel will be published on CD, including many which we have never heard before. However, the propelling strength of this project is not a record company and not an opera house, but a writer: American bestselling author Donna Leon. She is famous for her crime novels about the Italian Commissario Brunetti. None less but 16 cases she let him solve up to now, one per year. These books were also filmed successfully for television. Her 17th book (title: “The Girl of his Dreams“) has just been published.
However, when Donna Leon doesn’t deal with her Commissario, she follows her second passion: the music of George Frideric Handel. Especially weiter lesen »
Verfasst am 27. August 2009 um 12:42 in Interviews (Kommentieren)