Word: schlemma
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...other. West Germany's Hamburg TV wedded faces and voices in a topnotch production of Smetana's bucolic opera, The Bartered Bride. This exercise in "controlled schizophrenia" (used before in movies) began three months ago with tape recordings of such fine opera stars as Soprano Anny Schlemma, Basso Oskar Czerwenka. At show time the taped music flowed through loudspeakers as more photogenic players performed and mouthed the words. "Sacrilege on the spirit of opera," cried one German critic, but most other opera buffs seemed delighted...
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