Word: manuella
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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...
...metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised at his failure, the Duke enjoyed himself at Cincinnati, as he usually does, by clowning about in the water, spurting mouthfuls of it at the sides of the pool. When two other Hawaiians, the Kalili brothers, Manuella and Maiola, won their heats, he said: "That tickles...
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