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Design: Courtney Horner

Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Mansouri, Lotfi

True tales from the mad, mad, mad world of opera [electronic resource] / Lotfi Mansouri ; with Mark Hernandez ; foreword by Carol Burnett.

Includes index.

Electronic monograph in PDF and EPUB formats.
Also available in print format.

ISBN 978-1-4597-0517-3

1. Mansouri, Lotfi--Anecdotes. 2. Opera--Anecdotes.

I. Hernandez, Mark, 1965- II. Title.

ML65.M259 2012 782.1 C2012-903230-1

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Cover design by Courtney Horner.

Cover image: Lotfi with a camel designed by Bob Mackie for the San Francisco Opera production of Alban Berg’s Lulu.

Back cover image: Porgy and Bess, 2009 opening at the San Francisco Opera.

Photo by Cory Weaver.