Strange Child of Chaos

This is the fascinating story of one of America's greatest singers Norman Treigle (1927-1975). Born in the South's most exotic city New Orleans he was acclaimed as one of history's finest singing-actors specialising in rôles that evoked villainy and terror and was a resident star at the adventurous New York City Opera.</p> In this the first biography of the legendary bass-baritone you will read of his colourful life in New Orleans his self-destructive life-style the seeming contradictions in his complex character his passion for the race-track his enormous voice and emaciated physique his electrifying stage-presence and astonishing acting ability why he never sang at the Metropolitan Opera and his mysterious sudden death at the age of forty-seven. Read also of his relationships with his closest colleagues including Beverly Sills Phyllis Curtin Jon Vickers Plácido Domingo Michael Devlin Carlisle Floyd Julius Rudel Tito Capobianco and Frank Corsaro.</p> Based on the singer's private files years of extensive research and interviews with many of his relatives friends and colleagues <i>Strange Child of Chaos</i> (a quote from <i>Mefistofele</i> his greatest triumph) is a tale of the troubled life of an incomparable artist of an elemental power who bestrode the stage for too brief a moment.