Prologue: Staging my own funeral -- Paradoxes in Persia -- Lotfi in la-la land -- Americans to the rescue -- The Swiss connection -- Iranian intermezzo -- Back on track -- North of the border -- The road back to Tinsel town -- From provincial to world class -- Open your golden gate! -- Mother Nature gives an encore -- Leaving my heart -- An operatic voice for North America -- Lords and ladies of the Larynx, potentates of the podium -- Mansouri's gallery of illustrious colleagues -- Epilogue: Still in progress -- Appendices : A. Films and DVDs -- B. Productions directed by Mansouri
Summary
A lively and engaging memoir of one of opera's driving forces
