Word: kiepura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Age of Viennese opera by stressing dramatic stagecraft as well as musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini) and spectacular gestures. Many Viennese still remember the flamboyant tenor Jan Kiepura, who after performances serenaded his fans from the roof of a taxicab outside the stage door...
...EARTH, PEACE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The Christmas music of Central and East ern Europe, with Baritone Igor Gorin, Tenor Jan Kiepura and Soprano Eva Li-kova. Repeat...
Died. Jan Kiepura, 62, Polish tenor, whose dashing good looks and liquid voice took him to all the leading European opera houses, then to Hollywood, the Met and finally Broadway musical comedy, where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack...