An incontinent is singing Scarpia: see Rancid Pansies

Rancid Pansies, by James Hamilton-Paterson
(Rancid Pansies: anagram of Princess Diana)

Book three in the “Gerald Samper” series (Cooking with Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace).


(...) After his recent travails, Gerald is hoping to find a new world far from his humiliating hackery, and opera seems to fit the bill. As he says, it's "a scene more in sympathy with my true talents, where serious people discuss serious things like portamento and whether Tito Gobbi was incontinent onstage singing Scarpia to Callas's Tosca at Covent Garden in 1964."

And again:

As Rancid Pansies opens, Samper is recuperating in Sussex at the home of the famous conductor Max Christ ("Shit might pretzel Christ's intestines") (...)

Rancid Pansies, by James Hamilton-Paterson (Barnes & Noble)
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