Contents
Foreword by Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Chapter One ‘Push the Pram for Baby’
Chapter Two Stitches and Scales
Chapter Three Innocents Abroad
Chapter Four Mademoiselle Lawrence
Chapter Five Triumph in the Sun
Chapter Six Doubts, Delays and Disputes
Chapter Seven L’Étoile de l’Opéra
Chapter Eight Apple Pie and Horseplay
Chapter Nine Storm Clouds Gathering
Chapter Ten Lucky Strikes and Jackboots
Chapter Twelve The Glory Years
Chapter Thirteen ‘Was ich liebe, muss ich verlassen’
Chapter Fourteen ‘Master of my fate and captain of my soul’
Chapter Seventeen Twilight of the Gods
Chapter Eighteen Interrupted Melody
Chapter Nineteen Professor Lawrence