La voce lirica-spinta : oral history transcript / Dorothy Kirsten ; interviewed by Sybil D. Hast [May-July 1990] ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

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La voce lirica-spinta : oral history transcript / Dorothy Kirsten ; interviewed by Sybil D. Hast [May-July 1990] ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

Kirsten discusses her career as an opera singer; topics include acting and dressing as a "prima donna," learning languages and roles, leading men, and the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera.

Transcript: xi, 223 leaves : port. ; 29 cm.

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