| | `Hairball' Or Not, The Opera Must Go On: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Midway through the third act of Verdi's ``Aida'' Sunday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, soprano Marquita Lister suddenly quit singing and walked off stage. |
 | | Thousands of pieces of decorative confetti floated down from above during the three-hour production, and one could have lodged in her throat. |
 | | ``She said it felt like a hairball,'' said Judith Lisi, president of the center. |
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