From the accident-prone world of opera comes news that while singing Rossini's Barber of Seville, mezzo-soprano Joyce Di Donato broke one of the bones in her leg -- but carried on and completed the performance.
And if that suggests any plays on words. . . . well, they've been thought of already. Here's her own account of that night, puns and all.
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