You Can’t Make This Shit Up
There was a time when soprano Aprile Millo was a serious singer; I will always remember the electricity of her performing the aria “La Mamma Morta” (made famous by Tom Hanks in “Philadelphia,” though in Callas’s version) at Carnegie Hall in the 1980s. But when her voice started breaking down she took refuge in outrageous mannerisms and mugging for a diva-starved audience. Her latest appearance as opera’s Queen of Camp will certainly be this upcoming engagement described by the Post’s Page Six. I don’t have to annotate it for LemonWade’s discerning readers. Any article that starts like this — “Princess Verne of Rajpipia (India) is throwing [Millo] a cocktail party with such guests as director Franco Zeffirelli and his son, Pippo” — is its own best parody.
