letrouvere's Full Review: Manuela Hoelterhoff - Cinderella & Company: Backst...
Cinderella & Company, Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, by Manuela Hoelterhoff, published in hardcover in 1998, is now available in paperback.
Manuela Hoelterhoff, who had received a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism at the Wall Street Journal, spent much time with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli over a period of two years, from Bartoli's Cenerentola in Houston to her Cenerentola at the Met. Hoelterhoff also had conversations with Bartoli's relatives and her manager. The book is a humorous, somewhat flippant account of those two years in Bartoli's life. Travel problems and cancellations of scheduled performances may lend themselves to humor. Still, Hoelterhoff seems to have been determined to write a humorous book, whether the facts, such as the serious illness of Bartoli's brother, called for humor or not.
Hoelterhoff also records conversations with Luciano Pavarotti's manager Herbert Breslin, as well as with Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Renee Fleming, and Patricia Racette.
Hoelterhoff writes well, and the book is an easy, very pleasant read.
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