Word: desideria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like Carmen, required her to die of a knife wound each evening. ''I've been dying for a couple of years," said she at the time, "and I wonder if there's any future...