Word: gurnemanz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week world-famed, 48-year-old Basso Kipnis finally made his Metropolitan debut. Bearded and berobed in the usually boresome part of Holy-Grailer Gurnemanz in Wagner's lengthy Parsifal, Kipnis stole the show from Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, acted not only with his face and hands but with his voice as well. When Basso Kipnis was through with him, Gurnemanz had passed from muscle-bound youth to tottering old age without missing a footstep, and critics assured one another that a finer Gurnemanz had not been seen in a generation...
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