Cinderella and Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli

A wickedly funny look at opera today—the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos—and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career.
In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an adoring public around the world.
Rossini's Cenerentola is Bartoli's signature role, and Cinderel...