#Book Review #The Opera Sisters by Marianne Monson #Shadow Mountain Publisher #World War 2 Historical Fiction #Holocaust Fiction
MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Wow! What a lovely real life Historical fiction novel. In the 1900's the British Cook sisters, Ida and Louise Cook travelled continuously to Austria and Germany because of their passion for Opera and Music. As a result, they met and followed many of the prominent opera singers of the early to mid-20th century and developed friendships with them, including Maria Callas, Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Ezio Pinza, Elisabeth Rethberg, director Clemens Krauss, and soprano Viorica Ursuleac. It was at this period of thier life, when they helped refugees flee Nazi Germany and other nations under their influence, which was made possible by their connection with Krauss and Ursuleac. The extent to which they took their devotion to Galli-voice Curci's was one episode that revealed a spirit that would serve them well in the future. They heard Galli perform for the first time, her first British appearance - at a platform concert in the Albert Hall,...