Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career studded with firsts-she was the first Negro principal to sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits from an audience of 3,000 with a repertory ranging from Brahms lieder to spirituals, the former First Congregational Church soloist beamingly accepted a basket of roses from Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, who told her: "You have brought honor to Atlanta.'' Responded Mattiwilda: "My heart is so full...
...Hamburg Opera when she met Heinrich, married him and moved to East Berlin. Born Joan Crugman, the daughter of a Philadelphia portrait photographer, she had studied at Curtis Institute, later sang in New York nightclubs ("It's not easy to stand up before a lot of drunks and sing the 'Bell Song' from Lakme"). In 1959 she headed for Germany...
Since the first dark days after their escape to West Germany (when the couple had only $75 between them), both of their careers have soared: Joan will sing at least eight more performances of Lulu, and Rudolf is swamped with more operatic assignments than he can handle...
...Violetta in La Traviata, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, the first American ever to sing with Russia's 110-year-old Tiflis Opera, earned a shower of bouquets, 22 curtain calls and an enraptured chain of escorts all the way back to her hotel. (Ardent Georgians shouted in English: "May I kiss you?") Saving her voice for the remainder of a month-long Soviet tour, Miss Kirsten was later cajoled into a command demonstration of the twist. Said she: "The entire party applauded ecstatically. American culture has triumphed again...
...anthology of unintentional hilarities. "Just where do I stand," the heroine hollers angrily when the hero advises her to give up sex, "without my body!" The jazz, composed for the occasion by David (Laura) Raksin, is cool and epicene. Actress Stevens is blonde. Singer Darin does not sing; and besides, he looks like a rubber teddy bear...