Leonard Warren: American Baritone
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz





During April 2000, Amadeus Press published the Warren biography, Leonard Warren: American Baritone, by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Verdi: A Biography.

The Warren biography offers an intimate portrait of a beloved opera star, based on numerous interviews with family, colleagues, and friends. More than 100 rare photographs capture Warren in his great roles and private moments. The biography features a foreword by operaphile Tony Randall (”Leonard Warren was the great Verdi baritone of our times.”). It also includes an award-winning 112-page discography and a chronology, with principal artists, of Warren’s 833 opera performances.

Here are excerpts from critic reviews of Leonard Warren: American Baritone

"I am certain this book will be the last word on his great career."

Charles B. Mintzer, The Record Collector (UK)

Ordering the Biography:
You can order the Warren biography ($39.95)
directly from Amadeus Press by calling
Music Dispatch at 1-800-637-2852
or by visiting their Web site at www.amadeuspress.com



"Phillips-Matz, winning author of Verdi (Oxford Univ., 1993), provides a wealth of detail about the singer's personal and professional life along with valuable supplemental materials."

- Library Journal


"The 471-page biography features an exhaustive discography and performance annals along with more than 100 photographs...A richly detailed account."

Robert Baxter, Courier-Post


"Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's biography is probably as close to definitive as we are likely to see."

Fanfare


"This admirable volume will sit on a special shelf beside my Warren recordings, and I hope it will find such a place of honor on the shelves of all who admire great singing and fine writing."

William C. Clayton


"This is most certainly a book I would highly recommend to all lovers of singing and singers."

The Massenet Society


"A fleeting glimpse of what it might have been like to know the man -- something that even those who worked with him were usually denied."

Robert Croan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



[Last updated August 23, 2008]


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