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Charles Osborne (1) (1927–2017)

Autor(a) de Black Coffee: Novelisation

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40 Works 5,137 Membros 95 Reviews

About the Author

Charles Osborne's acclaimed Complete Operas series includes books on the operas of Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Richard Strauss. All are available in paperback from Da Capo Press.

Séries

Obras de Charles Osborne

Black Coffee: Novelisation (1930) — Adapter — 1,860 cópias
Spider's Web: Novelisation (2000) 966 cópias
W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet (1979) 133 cópias
Dictionary of Composers (1977) 71 cópias
Verdi: A Life in the Theatre (1656) 64 cópias
The Dictionary of the Opera (1983) 45 cópias
The Opera Lover's Companion (2004) 38 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Osborne, Charles
Nome de batismo
Osborne, Charles Thomas
Data de nascimento
1927
Data de falecimento
2017-09-23
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Australia
Local de nascimento
Brisbane, Australia
Educação
Queensland University
Ocupação
actor
director
editor
drama critic
book reviewer
poet (mostrar todas 7)
journalist
Premiações
Amici di Verdi Gold Medal (1993)
Griffith University. Honorary Doctorate
Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della solidarietà italiana
Pequena biografia
Charles Osborne was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1927. He worked in literary and musical journalism and in the theatre as an actor and director in Australia and Great Britain until, in 1958, he became Assistant Editor of The London Magazine and also began broadcasting for the BBC. From 1971 to 1986, he was a director of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and from 1986 to 1991, Chief Drama Critic of the London Daily Telegraph, for which newspaper he remains a regular book reviewer. Since 1970, he has been a member of the editorial board of Opera magazine.

Osborne, an international authority on opera--and a Verdi specialist, has written several books on that composer as well as guides to the operas of Mozart, Puccini, Straus, and Wagner. Three volumes of his poems have been published, and his autobiography, Giving it Away, appeared in 1986. In 1993 he was presented with the Amici di Verdi Gold Medal to honour his published work on Verdi over the past thirty years, and in 1994 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Griffith University, Australia, in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the arts. [from The Unexpected Guest (1999)]

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I just have a hard time following plays, I guess. And I didn't particularly like any of the characters.

There's some profanity, including God's name used as an exclamation.
 
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RachelRachelRachel | outras 46 resenhas | Nov 21, 2023 |
A novelisation of one of Agatha Christie's early plays.[return][return]Sir Claud has discovered the formula for a new explosive, which is stolen by someone in his house. He gives the thief time to replace the formula, and when the lights go back on, he is dead and Poirot has to work it out.[return][return]This does read like a play, lots of speech and very limited scenery (the majority of the book based in the drawing room and study)
 
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nordie | outras 46 resenhas | Oct 14, 2023 |
Where is my negative 1 star??
 
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adze117 | outras 46 resenhas | Sep 24, 2023 |
Die Geschichte nervt mich. Der Fremder steigt um Mitternacht das Haus ein, ohne Einladung? Wer macht das? Unsinnig. Er sieht eine Leiche, aber Moment, auch eine sexy Frau! Statt die Polizei zu rufen, will er sich mit ihr unterhalten. Unsinnig! Dann entschließt er sich mit dem Mord zu verwickeln, ein Mord zwischen Fremden, der nichts mit ihm zu tun hat:

"Ich mache mich nachträglich zum Komplizen," antwortete er.
"Aber warum?", fragte Laura. "Warum?"
"Wohl aus dem einfachen Grund, weil Sie eine überaus attraktive Frau sind und mir der Gedanke nicht gefällt, dass Sie die besten Jahre Ihres Lebens hinter Gittern verbringen sollen."

Quatsch.
… (mais)
 
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blueskygreentrees | outras 19 resenhas | Jul 30, 2023 |

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Obras
40
Membros
5,137
Popularidade
#4,853
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
95
ISBNs
350
Idiomas
21

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