Wilson Pereira wrote: >... I know from previous experience that list members probably don't care >about what Marcel Proust said about the violin (see my post "Proust and The >Violin" of 27/11) but what about fictional books where conductors, tenors, >sopranos are the main characters of the plot? Can anyone suggests more >examples of the kind? Vicki Baum wrote a novel called *Back Stage* which, IIRC, takes place in real time during a Met performance of *Carmen*, depicting the histories, problems, ambitions, and rivalries of the various participants in the production, w/ an intrusion or two on the performance from outside sources. Walter Meyer