Great Operatic Disasters [Paperback]

To its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale.Great Operatic Disastersrecords some of the most memorable calamities from opera houses around the world. Most of them are true, some have been embroidered over the years, and a few, well,se non e vero, e ben trovato.