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Florence Foster Jenkins, the Roundworld Christine
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As for the whole "can't sing a note" thing, she either [[GiftedlyBad has an exaggerated opinion of her ability to sing]], or is just ''pretending'' to be dreadful so she can "miraculously" become a great singer (once she's frustrated her more musically gifted rival Agnes into quitting the opera, that is); it's been noted in other Discworld books that sometimes you have to be really good to appear to be really bad. This also means she was pretending not to notice that Agnes was "ghosting" her during the opera, .
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As for the whole "can't sing a note" thing, she either [[GiftedlyBad has an exaggerated opinion of her ability to sing]], or is just ''pretending'' to be dreadful so she can "miraculously" become a great singer (once she's frustrated her more musically gifted rival Agnes into quitting the opera, that is); it's been noted in other Discworld books that sometimes you have to be really good to appear to be really bad. This also means she was pretending not to notice that Agnes was "ghosting" her during the opera, .
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It could be that TP was also alluding to one Narcissa Florence Foster Jenkins, a truly extraordinary opera singer, who was blissfully unaware her singing voice was that of an out-of-tune strangled cat but who used inherited money and a forceful personality to self-promote her performances. The USA fell in with the joke and treated the homely-looking Florence, at least to her face, as a star diva and her performances were usually sell-outs. Christine is perhaps a Florence Foster Jenkins blessed with star quality and captivating beauty: because she looked the part and had Agnes to provide a voice, the illusion carried itself off sucessfully.
It could be that TP was also alluding to one Narcissa Florence Foster Jenkins, a truly extraordinary opera singer, who was blissfully unaware her singing voice was that of an out-of-tune strangled cat but who used inherited money and a forceful personality to self-promote her performances. The USA fell in with the joke and treated the homely-looking Florence, at least to her face, as a star diva and her performances were usually sell-outs. Christine is perhaps a Florence Foster Jenkins blessed with star quality and captivating beauty: because she looked the part and had Agnes to provide a voice, the illusion carried itself off sucessfully.
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[[WMG: Mr. Pounder the ratcatcher was reincarnated as Darktan from ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents''.]]
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[[WMG: Mr. Pounder the ratcatcher was reincarnated as Darktan from ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents''.''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents''.]]
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Agnes notes at one point that Christine is "remarkably clever in some specialized ways", and Christine is awfully short with Agnes after she blurts out her suspicions that Walter Plinge is the Phantom. So, what if she's just [[ObfuscatingStupidity not as dumb as she lets on]]? In Christine's case, she [[GenreSavvy knows she's in a story]] like that of ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', but like Malicia from ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' she thinks she's the main character. All those times she was "accidentally" insulting Agnes and [[YankTheDogsChain yanking the dogs' chain]]? All an act to mess with Agnes, of whose talent she's jealous, in yet another reversal of Christine and Carlotta from ''Phantom of the Opera''!
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Agnes notes at one point that Christine is "remarkably clever in some specialized ways", and Christine is awfully short with Agnes after she blurts out her suspicions that Walter Plinge is the Phantom. So, what if she's just [[ObfuscatingStupidity not as dumb as she lets on]]? In Christine's case, she [[GenreSavvy knows she's in a story]] like that of ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', but like Malicia from ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' ''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' she thinks she's the main character. All those times she was "accidentally" insulting Agnes and [[YankTheDogsChain yanking the dogs' chain]]? All an act to mess with Agnes, of whose talent she's jealous, in yet another reversal of Christine and Carlotta from ''Phantom of the Opera''!
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[[WMG: Christine has [[Discworld/LordsAndLadies elvish blood in her]].]]
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[[WMG: Christine has [[Discworld/LordsAndLadies [[Literature/LordsAndLadies elvish blood in her]].]]
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* Note that the one ''other'' [[Discworld/SoulMusic Discworld character we know of]] who "looks elvish" was a ''very'' good singer.
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* Note that the one ''other'' [[Discworld/SoulMusic [[Literature/SoulMusic Discworld character we know of]] who "looks elvish" was a ''very'' good singer.
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[[WMG: The opera about [[Theatre/LesMiserables a guy named Les who is really miserable]] is set during [[Discworld/NightWatch the Ankh-Morpork Civil War]]]]
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[[WMG: The opera about [[Theatre/LesMiserables a guy named Les who is really miserable]] is set during [[Discworld/NightWatch [[Literature/NightWatchDiscworld the Ankh-Morpork Civil War]]]]
