Word: ljuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trumpeted nine soaring high Cs, all in one aria, provoking the Met audience into a howling, stamping ova tion. But the high point of the evening for many buffs came at the end, when retired Soprano Ljuba Welitch. 58, her flame-red hair blazing, her gestures still full of the pantherish passion that made her Salome a legend two decades ago, strode onstage for a brief speaking role. Oldtimers responded with a tear ful hand-clapping tribute in memory of the past...