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Word: mirna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Makropulos Case, Cherubini in Medea, Richard Strauss in Salomé and Elektra. All in some degree have paid the price in lack of performances. Yerma needs a soprano who can act like Maria Callas and sing like Leontyne Price. In Santa Fe it had Mirna Lacambra, a young Spanish soprano with a red-velvet voice but an acting style that seemed to have been derived from old Theda Bara movies. As a result Yerma, who should have seemed tormented and tragic, often appeared merely a terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Infertility Rites | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

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