A spy informs La Cieca, “In the question and answer segment of tonight’s evening honoring Jessye Norman at National Sawdust, this guy stood up and asked the diva what it felt like getting trapped inside the stage pyramid during the Met’s premiere of Antony and Cleopatra.” 

Cooed La Norman (who was, after all, born to play Vera Charles), “Oh dear, I was still in middle school. That was Miss Leontyne Price!”

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