Word: dido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louise Smith, 19, has the best soprano voice of anyone in her class at the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts, it was only natural that she should win the starring role in the college's annual full-dress opera. Last October she was cast as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, rehearsed conscientiously. Then, only a few days before last week's performance, she was summoned to the office of the dean and told that she must get out of the cast. Dean E. W. Doty was very sorry, but certain legislators...
Pressure from the state legislature forced the administration of the University of Texas to withdraw a Negro student from the cast of the college opera: Dido and Aeneas...
Barbara Smith, a freshman at UT, was cast six months ago as Dido, but one week before opening she was told by the administration that she would not appear in the opera. The reasons given were: "to insure Miss Smith's well-being and to quelch any possibility that her appearance would precipitate a cut in the University's appropriations in the state legislature...
...play that first gave the Pudding a national reputation was "Dido and Aeneas" presented in 1882. It was shown in the usual tradition, complete with exploding altars and discourses on chastity, but it did have an excellent book, garnished with music described by Samuel Eliot Morison '08 as "a potpourri of Offenbach, Suppe, Bizet, Meyerbeer, and Wagner...
...Dido and Aeneas" was good enough to start another Pudding tradition, which in many ways has proved to be a cul de sac throughout the years. The play was sent on tour for the first time and played to audiences in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia...