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Word: hoopskirted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like a Hula-Hoop and still sing is her secret and Ponnelle's. But it is immense fun to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Opera Week That Was | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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