Mansouri L., Hernandez M. True tales from the mad, mad, mad world of opera

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2012. — 185 p.Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri.Overture: Lotfi in the Underworld
The Temple Shall Not Fall Tonight
Prompting the Prompter
Those Wacky Wagnerites
Have You Seen Lotfi's Violetta?
The Unkindest Cut of All, Part I
Wasn't that Better, Kid?
Coming to a Head
Intermission: (Mis)adventures in Italy
The Curse of the Joyous Woman, Part I
The Exposed Unmentionables
The Unkindest Cut of All, Part II
An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
The Shah's Non-Command Performance
Mid-Life Crisis
Horsing Around in Vienna
The Many Faces of Love
Intermission: A Potpourri of Madness
The Curse of the Joyous Woman, Part II
The Rio Norma
Did I Hear Him Right?
Acting Up on Opening Night
Do Worry, Be Unhappy
Boards and Other Well-Meaning Obstacles
Dinner with the Yeltsins
Two Gentlemen in Verona
What's My Line?
Finale: Lotfi's Song.