Pros: Funny and perceptive... Cons: ...you'll have to be an opera buff to get a lot of it.
Manuela Hoelterhoff is a former opera supernumerary (the lowest of the low onstage- they're paid a pittance for the glory of silently sharing the stage to fill out the crowd scenes), but is more known for her Pulitzer-winning achievements as a critic for ...
Pros: Very enjoyable read. Cons: Occasionally tries too hard to be funny.
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...
From Hoelterhoff, whose candid and astute opera reviews for The Wall Street Journal won her a Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism, comes this wicked...More at Buy.com
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