Word: bruna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace that most critics pronounced it superior to the winter performances in which high-priced Rosa Ponselle impersonated the irrepressible gypsy heroine. For its spring season the Metropolitan had kept on 60 of its regular orchestramen, 60 choristers, the complete ballet corps. For its Carmen it had retained Bruna Castagna, a roly-poly Italian who joined the Metropolitan regulars last winter and was no stranger to New Yorkers who had heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly, rich-voiced woman who sings with authority...