Florence Foster Jenkins: The Unlikely Soprano by HowlRound

By Patricia Davis. Stephen Temperley's "Souvenir: a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins", is a tender send-up of delusional self-belief. The British playwright sets the action in 1964, nearly two decades after the death of the New York heiress and socialite whose absolute lack of musical talent was no hindrance to her will to be heard. She became famous, holding concerts where she performed the most diffi…

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