Table of Contents

Foreword by Luciano Pavarotti. Foreword by Placido Domingo. Preface. PART ONE. My Mother's Voice. My Father's Dream. Mrs. James Carter. City of Dreams. PART TWO. Hurry Slowly. Turning Points. From Convent Garden to La Scala to the Met. Transfigurations. And Baby Makes Three. PART THREE. "Troy Meets Shirl". An Actor's Life. Somewhere In Between. Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres PART FOUR. My Greatest Fan. An End and a Beginning. Opera Synopses. Discography. Acknowledgments. Index.

About the Author

SHIRLEY VERRETT (soprano) has been acclaimed for her starring roles at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Opera, the Paris Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. She is the James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Music at the University of Michigan. CHRISTOPHER BROOKS, who collaborated with Ms. Verrett, is Associate Professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. A biographer, he holds a doctorate in anthropology/ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

"Recommended for large music libraries for its value as a career chronicle". (Library Journal, May 15, 2003) "...a fascinating and down-to-earth autobiography." (The New York Times Book Review-Books in Brief, Sunday, September 7, 2003)