Word: rouche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Paris after the war, she sneaked backstage between acts of La Bohème at the Opéra-Comique and buttonholed balding Georges Hirsch, head of national French opera houses, told him: "Mr. Rouché thought I would be a wonderful Thaïs." Hirsch was flummoxed. He had never heard of her, and he had taken Jacques Rouché's place, when Rouché was removed as a collaborator. "Does Madame suggest an audition?" asked Hirsch politely. "No," said Edis, "Madame suggests a rehearsal of Manon." She got the rehearsal...