Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gauguin used to wail, in later years-much as a lifer's wife might wail: "I had no idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling...
...Opera Theater's singers are competent, and some considerably better. Mac Morgan, James Joyce, and Robert Mesrobian sing and act The Barber with magnificent style; Adele Addision's Countess combines a marked dramatic talent with vocal beauty that is easily outstanding among American sopranos...
...artist, and his piano-playing wife Gertrude was brought up in an eight-room house on Detroit's middle-class Kirby Street. Life was pleasant and easygoing. In the evenings Joe and his brother and sister liked to gather around their mother's piano for a family sing, with father Dodge strumming a banjo. Sundays, little Joe sang soprano in the St. Andrew's (Episcopal) choir until his voice changed...
...year contract. On top of the reaction of Municipal Opera's fans, its famed director, Carl Ebert, 67, himself snapped an angry farewell. Its gist: his artists should not only be good singers but good citizens. Once they have gone, Klose and Hermann will not be allowed to sing again for the company, even as guests. The reason for all the fuss was simply that the Municipal Opera is in Berlin's British sector while the State Opera is across the line in the Russian...
...still perforated by bomb fragments. The Western occupation authorities did not include opera in their budget, so Municipal singers got starvation salaries. The few able conductors and singers who stuck with it did so only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup which was superior (although neither achieved the standard of the old Berlin State Opera, New York's Metropolitan or Milan...