First Night

by Jane Aiken Hodge

Book Overview

The year is 1802, and Cristabel and Max are headlining a youth performance of Orpheus and Eurydice in Lissenberg's new opera house. Christabel convinces Max to switch parts to let her sing the male... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399134530
• ISBN13: 9780399134531
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

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1802: Peace is breaking out in Europe, and two young women set out to seek their fortune there. American Martha is rich, plain and tired of fortune hunters, English Cristabel is a duke's unwanted daughter with the voice of an angel. But nothing is stable in Napoleon's Europe and twenty-five years of tyranny are to be celebrated with a new opera, but whose libretto will be chosen? Cristabel's prince and Martha's plebian are both competitors, but more hangs on the opera's first performance than either the girls can guess.