Julia Migenes: Diva on the Verge (2000)

Drawing on her own experiences as a star of the opera, the irrepressible soprano Julia Migenes invites us to look afresh at the genre she loves, with an irreverent one-woman through operatic preconceptions. For many, the world of opera is stuffy and exclusive: there are the incomprehensible lyrics; the improbable plots; the starving artists; lovelorn teenagers and consumptive leading ladies, played by large, decidedly middle-aged, singers, with very powerful lungs.