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Starring Pina Menichelli whose overwrought style of acting earned her the nickname "Our Lady of the Spasms" as an egomaniacal diva and Febo Mari as the young painter she ensnares in her charms, Il Fuoco had audiences gasping in amazement and laughing their heads off at the diva's outrageous behavior.

George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

Starring Pina Menichelli whose overwrought style of acting earned her the nickname "Our Lady of the Spasms" as an egomaniacal diva and Febo Mari as the young painter she ensnares in her charms, Il Fuoco had audiences gasping in amazement and laughing their heads off at the diva's outrageous behavior.

George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

Or that the Castafiore emerald is really about a diva's private parts -- a precious jewel past compare.

Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011

When Katharine McPhee was heading towards her number-two finish on the 2006 American Idol season -- and singing "Over the Rainbow" with full-blast passion at least twice -- it was as obvious as her Boston Conservatory past that the incipient diva's true destination was not pop-charts prominence but Broadway.

David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012

Or that the Castafiore emerald is really about a diva's private parts -- a precious jewel past compare.

Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011

Or that the Castafiore emerald is really about a diva's private parts -- a precious jewel past compare.

Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011

As a celebration of Lena Horne, Ms. Freelon doesn't delve into dates and stats in her patter but rather shares her experience of the late diva's spiritual inspiration.

Refining Classic Sounds Will Friedwald 2011

Unfit for Mass Consumption - "The mental and diva's hands ..."

"The mental and diva's hands..." greygirlbeast 2010

And some worry the same could be said for the diva's career.

On tour, Whitney Houston is hitting some sour notes 2010

When Katharine McPhee was heading towards her number-two finish on the 2006 American Idol season -- and singing "Over the Rainbow" with full-blast passion at least twice -- it was as obvious as her Boston Conservatory past that the incipient diva's true destination was not pop-charts prominence but Broadway.

David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012