"Goes all out... singing grandly"

As the diva, Meg Bussert goes all out as a mean, loopy Carlotta, the company’s resident soprano buffa. She is the instigator and the usurper. Is Miss Bussert revving up for Mrs. Lovett in SWEENY TODD? She pulls off the neat trick of singing grandly—no surprise—and off pitch when her voice is supposed to provoke the underground Phantom to moan: ‘I can’t live hearing sounds like that.’
— Alvin Klein