Word: favorita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...