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The Muse Surmounted: Florence Foster Jenkins and Eleven of Her Rivals
(2004)
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performed by
Alice Gerstl Duschak (vocals), Allen Rogers (piano), Betty-Jo Schramm (vocals), Cosme McMoon (piano), Cosme McMoon (speech/speaker/speaking part), David Garvey (piano), Florence Foster Jenkins (vocals), Louis Alberghini (flute), Mari Lyn (vocals)
composed by
Benjamin R. Hanby, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Heinrich Graun, Carl Maria von Weber, Cosme McMoon, Erik Meyer-Helmund, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Portuguese Traditional, Spoken Word
Operatic kitsch has never been so splendidly celebrated as it is in The Muse Surmounted -- a wildly entertaining horror show of vocal ambitions gone very, very wrong. Taking its lead from the impossibly shrill, off-key recordings of Florence Foster Jenkins, whose self-financed 1944 Carnegie Hall concert remains one of the wildest events ever to ...
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