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Peter Danish is the Classical Music Editor in Chief for BroadwayWorld.com and a contributor to numerous industry blogs. He is also a sought-after speech writer and media coach.
Reviewed by Raanan Geberer for Readers' Favorite
Even if you don’t like opera, you’ll like The Tenor by Peter Danish, and if you do love opera, you’ll love it even more. And the book makes opera so appealing that, perhaps, it will make new opera lovers out of some of its readers. The Tenor, a well-written piece of historical fiction, revolves around Pino Vaggi, a promising young singer who grows up in a small Italian Alpine town in the 1930s, thinking of almost nothing but opera – that and his beloved Gia, also a singer. He gets a contract to sing at La Scala, but before he can follow through, World War II erupts and he gets drafted. He finds himself stationed in Athens, where he becomes enchanted by a young female singer whom he hears singing from her window. He befriends the young soprano and even sings duets with her. Years later, she has become one of the most famous opera singers in the world — Maria Callas! And Gino, now married to Gia and living in New York, can only hope he’ll meet her again.
In The Tenor, Peter Danish reveals himself to be a master of description, portraying Pino’s Alpine village and Italian army life during World War II so vividly that you can imagine being there. The Tenor also reveals the complicated relationship that the Italian people had with fascism, showing that behind closed doors there was a lot of resentment against Mussolini. The later passages describing New York City are also true to life. No matter how you look at it, The Tenor by Peter Danish hits a high note.
