The Opera Cooks

To demonstrate their culinary skills to the world, 70 opera stars from 28 countries got themselves in a great mood and chopped, quartered, mixed, kneaded, and stirred, turning red or white meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, marzipan and chocolate into their deliciously smelling favourite dishes. The result is a cookbook with more than 700 pictures, 70 very personal, handwritten recipes in the opera stars' native language, answers revealing their eating habits and kitchen secrets, funny snapshots, joyful moments of culinary creation, and wine recommendations from the world's best winegrowers for each recipe. The opera elite invite you to have a seat at their table: Ildar ABDRAZAKOV - Roberto ALAGNA - Carlos ÁLVAREZ - Fabio ARMILIATO - Piotr BECZALA - Benjamin BERNHEIM - Pavol BRESLIK - Lawrence BROWNLEE - Joseph CALLEJA - Javier CAMARENA - José CARRERAS - Charles CASTRONOVA - Stephen COSTELLO - Diana DAMRAU - Annette DASCH - Danielle DE NIESE - Joyce DI DONATO - Adrian ERÖD - Tara ERRAUGHT - Ying FANG - Juan Diego FLÓREZ - George GAGNIDZE - Elina GARANCA - Vittorio GRIGOLO - Asmik GRIGORIAN - Anja HARTEROS - Bryan HYMEL - Jonas KAUFMANN - Simon KEENLYSIDE - Angelika KIRCHSCHLAGER - Aleksandra KURZAK - Kristin LEWIS - Nino MACHAIDZE - Christopher MALTMAN - Francesco MELI - Akiko NAKAJIMA - Anna NETREBKO - Lisette OROPESA - René PAPE - Hera Heysang PARK - Olga PERETYATKO - Ailyn PÉREZ - Marlis PETERSEN - Mélissa PETIT - Saimir PIRGU - Matthew POLENZANI - Joel PRIETO - Anita RACHVELISHVILI - Kurt RYDL - Michael SCHADE - Daniel SCHMUTZHARD - Jekaterina SEMENTSCHUK - Martina SERAFIN - SHENYANG - Nadine SIERRA - Bo SKOVHUS - Michael SPYRES - Nina STEMME - Elena STIKHINA - Krassimira STOYANVOA - Bryn TERFEL - Ludovic TÉZIER - Clemens UNTERREINER - Ramón VARGAS - Klaus Florian VOGT - Markus WERBA - Jinxu XIAHOU - Pretty YENDE - Sonya YONCHEVA and Adela ZAHARIA.