Word: dorabella
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...heavy-set roles, traditionally doled out to mezzos, e.g., Brangaene and other secondary parts in Wagner operas, Amneris in Aïda. Last season, as the Met's English-language repertory grew, she turned comedienne, won all-out approval for her beautiful-but-dumb Dorabella in Cosï Fan Tutte. This year, she went still further afield, took on the bearded lady in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, and managed to give the grotesque part a feeling of femininity and more than its measure...