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...there another art form that attracts so many sublime sufferers and so many nuts?" asks Manuella Hoelterhoff in her new book Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli. The narrative, loosely based on a two-year period in the life of the world famous mezzo-soprano, provides a way for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hoelterhoff to expose all the craziness of the opera world. Her readable anecdotes of eccentric divas, push managers and overweight sopranos give a "behind-the-scenes" picture of opera that will delight everyone from the hard-core opera buffs who live for this...
...CINDERELLA AND COMPANY...
...cover and her name is included in the title, Bartoli remains elusive in the narrative. Hoelterhoff followed the shy off-stage mezzo on and off from 1995 to 1997 and attempted to capture her "rags to riches" story by making a parallel between Bartoli and her signature role as Cinderella in Rossini's Cenerentola. Bartoli's story, however, is quickly overshadowed and nearly buried by the more colorful personalities that she encounters. After a lazy dialogue between the author and Bartoli, we meet Bartoli's doctor, who speaks "with the enthusiasm of someone who had just glimpsed the Zabar...
...older daughter will be a skyscraper," Preble said, "and the younger daughter is Cinderella...
When the giants agreed to an alliance, Psion became the Cinderella of the mobile-phone world. Analysts figured that if it won 15% of the mobile-phone market projected for 2003, Psion's share of Symbian alone could be worth $430 million a year. The deal also meant that Psion's computers might find more customers. Psion's depressed shares soared as a result, from $3.36 to $12 on the London Stock Exchange. "For a while it looked like Psion was finished, but by getting together with the dominant players in the telecom industry and partnering with them, they have...