![]() ![]() Willa had already been planning to write a book about an opera singer, and it was fortuitous that she got to meet the three singers for her interviews. In 1913, Willa Cather was assigned to write an article for McClure’s magazine about three American opera singers, Louise Homer, Geraldine Farrar, and Olive Fremstad. The fictional Thea’s professional achievements were inspired by the real-life career of the Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad. Her passion for artistic perfection informs everything she does. Thea’s sole focus is on her aspiration to artistic perfection. The novel story arc follows Thea from her girlhood, when her ambition takes root, to achieving the stature of prima donna at the age of thirty. ![]() She sees the surroundings in which she is growing up in as cheap and tawdry, though it’s a part of the booming American West. Born into the family of a Swedish Methodist minister in the Colorado village of moonstone, she has a beautiful voice, a driving ambition, and an innate sense of what is true and fine. ![]() Thea Kronborg has a dream of becoming a world-class singer. It traces the artistic development of Thea Kronberg from Moonstone, her hometown in the desert of Colorado, to the stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, published in 1915, was the third of her twelve novels. ![]()
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