The new book of András Batta entitled “The Celestial Voice”
Once upon a time there was a little girl with pigtails in the 9 She walked into the music school of Mester Street then she started playing piano. Perhaps her decision wasn’t known at home, but it wasn’t really important for her. She was determined and when she was informed that there wasn’t any place in the class, because she was late, she immediately went to the schoolmistress: she would like to learn music – now! Finally, the schoolmistress gave a ready consent, because she couldn’t endure the penetrating eye of the gaptoothed girl with pigtails. Like in a folktale: this is the beginning of career of Eva Marton, one of the greatest sopranos of the last forty years, after the World War II in Budapest, behind a red and black political background. But who was born for liberty and victory, she was brave when she went to the stage of life: the prestigious sanctum of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and among the imperious towers of the Hungarian State Opera.9th district of Budapest, Ferencváros.
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