![]() Then I listened to a 28 hour lecture series called It takes you through everything you need to know step by The best thing I did was to buy aīook called Opera 101 by Fred Plotkin. Myself into learning about it whole-heartedly. But once I came up with the character of Roxane Coss I threw I knew as much about opera as I did about baseball, which Were you an opera aficionado prior to writing Bel Canto? Turning a tragedy I knew nothing about into this novel was part of that Read about in the paper, to grieve for disasters that had no immediate affect on For a long time I'd wanted to find a way to experience the things I ![]() It had so manyĮlements that were compelling to me: confinement, survival, the construction ofįamily. I'm sure I didn't know that day that this story would turn into BelĬanto, but I was completely focused on it from the start. That the terrorist organization Tupac Amaru took over the Japanese embassy in ![]() With an idea for a novel but this one is easy: December 17th, 1996, the night Usually it's hard to pin down the exact point at which you come up ![]() Discover how Ann Patchett, who knew nothing about opera, learned all she needed to know in order to develop the opera singing lead character in Bel Canto and which operas are now her favorites. ![]()
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