Glorious! November 18, 2006

American Florence Foster Jenkins seems hard to think of as an underdog. She was astonishingly rich with incredibly loyal friends. But she dreamed of being acclaimed as the world's finest "pure coloratura". Alas, she lacked any talent whatsoever and was totally untrained; a fatal combination that caused those who heard her to explode in laughter and label her "hog calleratura" and the "diva of din". Inspired by her riotous recordings of the !50's, British playwright Peter Quilter hilariously recounts her life and her fabled assault on Mozart in Carnegie Hall.