Word: coloraturas
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...career studded with firsts-she was the first Negro principal to sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits from an audience of 3,000 with a repertory ranging from Brahms lieder to spirituals, the former First Congregational Church soloist beamingly accepted a basket of roses from Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, who told her: "You have brought honor to Atlanta.'' Responded Mattiwilda: "My heart is so full...
Like many another East Berliner, famed Komische Oper Set Designer Rudolf Heinrich, 35, and his wife, Coloratura Joan Heinrich, 32, were worried by the rising of the Wall. They thought about fleeing to the West, but there was a lot to keep them in the East. There was Rudolf's politically favored position as star set designer of the Communists' showcase opera house; there was Joan's promising career as one of the house's new but favored singers. Then the Heinrichs heard a rumor that all foreigners in East Berlin would have to surrender their...
...Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...
Fatal Mistake. As portrayed by most singers, Lulu has the morals of an alley cat and the tastes of the Marquis de Sade: in three acts she destroys three husbands before making the fatal mistake of picking up Jack the Ripper on a London street. Coloratura Carroll saw Lulu differently-as a kind of child of nature whose body enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages...
...Darkness. Coloratura Carroll had just started to build a reputation at the Hamburg Opera when she met Heinrich, married him and moved to East Berlin. Born Joan Crugman, the daughter of a Philadelphia portrait photographer, she had studied at Curtis Institute, later sang in New York nightclubs ("It's not easy to stand up before a lot of drunks and sing the 'Bell Song' from Lakme"). In 1959 she headed for Germany...