The worst opera singer who ever sold out Carnegie Hall
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#773XB)
Florence Foster Jenkins(1868 - 1944) has been called the worst opera singer who ever lived, and she filled Carnegie Hall anyway. A wealthy New York socialite, she sang coloratura arias wildly beyond her range - consistently flat, mangling the rhythm, her accompanist scrambling to follow - while dressed in wings and tinsel of her own design. - Read the rest
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