Word: sayao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stayed away. But Seattle's Civic Auditorium was packed anyway, and for three nights. The San Francisco Opera had come to town, with three productions (Manon, Tannhauser, Rigoletto), a cast of 241, including an orchestra and such big-time singers as Grace Moore, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Bidu Sayao...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...