Download or read book Viva Malvina! written by Joy Tonks and published by Penguin Group (New Zealand). This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the much-loved and respected international soprano, who turned her back on the opera world as a young world-class soprano to marry a dairy farmer, live on a farm and bring up his children. It charts her return to opera, the death of her husband and the rebuilding of her career.