Word: olszewska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opera stars seemed personal friends-or foes-of everyone in town. Once, when Contralto Maria Olszewska spat upon Maria Jeritza during a performance of Wagner's Die Walküre, partisans were close to rioting in cafes all over Vienna. Even while the war-gutted opera house was being slowly rebuilt during the past decade, Vienna managed to put on 600 opera performances a year in other houses (the Met stages about 200, including tours). And the Vienna telephone company offers each day's opera bill, with recorded excerpts...