Jealousy in the Family

A musician with *zero* jealousy toward colleagues is rare enough. But jealousy inside a household? That can turn an opera into a battlefield.

About a century ago there was a tenor named Ansari and his wife—both performers, both fiercely competitive. If one of them received even a little more applause than the other, the offended party would boil over.

Their solution was as petty as it was theatrical: they were known to hire men in the audience to *hiss the other one off the stage*.

Some marriages share a home. This one shared a heckler budget.