Imagine the worst opera singer ever. Now imagine that she’s determined to perform in public. That’s the premise of an award-winning French satire that’s based on a true story. It’s called Marguerite, ...

Marguerite Piazza, a New Orleans-born opera singer who blended her lyric soprano voice with supper club showmanship, died Aug. 2 at her home in Memphis, Tenn. She was 86. Marguerite Piazza's funeral ...

If only love were all! Then loving what you live for -- for Ed Wood, it was the cinema -- would make you an interpretive artist of the highest order. In “Marguerite,” the title character is working on ...

Questions surround the character of “Marguerite,” surname Dumont, a wealthy woman in 1920s France who devotes her life to singing opera, even though her voice is ferociously off-key. Is she delusional ...

There’s a line in “Marguerite” — a strangely moving story of a wealthy heiress whose passion to sing opera is matched only by her profound tone-deafness — that put me in mind, ever so briefly, of a ...

Socialite Marguerite has no idea how bad she is — servants, friends and even other opera singers are too polite to tell her. Critic Bob Mondello... Meet 'Marguerite,' A Tone-Deaf Opera Singer Who's ...

Marguerite Piazza, the New Orleans-born opera star, whose career included performances at the Metropolitan Opera, for Capitol Records and on Sid Caesar's 'Your Show of Shows,' died Thursday in Memphis ...

If only love were all! Then loving what you live for — for Ed Wood, it was the cinema — would make you an interpretive artist of the highest order. In “Marguerite,” the title character is working on a ...