Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started not in grand opera but in musical comedy. She sang at the Leningrad Operetta Theater during the war, sandwiching performances between stints of rubble clearing in the streets. In 1952 she graduated to the Bolshoi Opera, is now preparing the leading role in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Married to famed Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Soprano Vishnevskaya has two daughters, lives comfortably in a six-room Moscow apartment, draws a top Soviet artist's salary of $1,500 a month...
...Music has nothing new to say, but it says the familiar with zest and wit. Only a Leonard Bernstein, for instance, would ever undertake to explain jazz by writing a Macbeth Blues...