Laetitia Bex has just published a very detailed and dense biography on Emma Calvé. The book is also selling very well.
The author, with the help of short chapters, reveals with small precise touches the fascinating story of a singer who knew an international celebrity, having sung on all the continents.
Young people said of her that she had an “artistic soul”. Her voice, at the same time soft, sonorous and smooth, flexible and crystal clear, amazed everyone.
Laetitia Bex does not stop at the brilliant and sometimes whimsical journey of the diva born in Decazeville. She sought to find the right balance between an extraordinary life and duller moments, misunderstandings, disillusions. She adds: “Immersing myself in the feminine movement of the nineteenth century, I was able to link the paths of Emma Calvé and that of my uncle’s aunt that I relate in my previous work (read” L’Américaine, une Aveyronnaise in San Francisco “). A priori, nothing brings them together, then we realize that both have followed somewhat tortuous but fertile paths, finding a certain wealth in the United States, delivering a surplus of celebrity for Emma. J ‘loves to follow these extraordinary destinies “.
The book on Emma Calvé is on sale, at the price of 20 €, at the Maison de la presse in Decazeville, in Espalion, Marcillac, Millau, at the Maison du livre in Rodez, at the bookstore “La Folle Avoine” in Villefranche -de-Rouergue, at the Leclercs of Rodez and Capdenac-le-Haut.
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