Word: bidu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hairdressers entwined flowers, jewels and ostrich plumes into lacquered coiffures. The weather was warm-but ladies who like to show off their platinum fox coats showed up at the Teatro Municipal in them anyhow. The cheapest seats in the gallery were $4.80; and the house was sold out. Baldwina ("Bidu") de Oliveira Sayao (rhymes with bye now), the cause of it all, was not surprised. Said she: "When they love an artist, they really love...
...Bidu Sayao, Brazilian operatic soprano, finally got around to having her tonsils out, in Ann Arbor, Mich. She would make her atonsillar debut at 39 in Philadelphia next week...
Your Music editor has made a grave error. Bidu Sayao (TIME, Feb. 14) is not the Metropolitan Opera's best Mimi. Grace Moore...
...convention stayed away. But Seattle's Civic Auditorium was packed anyway, and for three nights. The San Francisco Opera had come to town, with three productions (Manon, Tannhauser, Rigoletto), a cast of 241, including an orchestra and such big-time singers as Grace Moore, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Bidu Sayao...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...