Word: ries
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent book* tells an extraordinary story about this extraordinary woman. One afternoon years ago the director of the Metropolitan Opera House asked her hesitatingly whether she could sing in Die Walkürie that night. He was badly in need of her services. She said: "Why not?" That evening she sang as an aerial Valkyrie?that is to say, suspended in the iron ring. Next evening her ninth child was born. A few nights later she was again in the iron ring singing...