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Finishing immediately behind Todd-Geddes, in eighth place, was senior Nick Blannin, who raced under the alias “Agatta Knunee (I got a new knee)” poking fun at the operation which he underwent during the summer offseason...
...stage performance in Mannheim. Then the audience reacted wildly almost as soon as the curtain rose. Emitting open vowel sounds, the tenor sang: "AUAUAUAUAU a U A U." Outdoing him, the bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week not only found the work "interesting" but even professed to find meaning (the difficulties nations...
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