Technical Hitches and Practical Jokes, Animals, The Audience, Wagnerian Events, Acts of God and "Hair-breadth 'Scapes". Opera is one of the most accident-prone of all the arts, and here are some anecdotes, some most definitely true, others not quite so. This book had me in stitches. The absurdity of the situations is all too believable to anyone who has ever been involved in an operatic endeavour.
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