Word: stadt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mezzo-Soprano Hoffman held on to her Manhattan bar job while she took singing lessons. In 1951 she won a Fulbright scholarship to study opera in Italy, became a member first of the Zurich Stadt-theater, later of the Stuttgart Staatsoper. In her seven years in Europe. Grace has appeared at La Scala, Covent Garden. Florence. Bayreuth. With her 2½-octave range she has sung 20-odd roles, including Carmen. Gluck's Orpheus, Dora-bella in Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte, Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, plus mezzo and contralto parts...
...anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
...burghers of Chemnitz, the new honor was not to be had cheaply. Sample show of gratitude: workers in one factory "volunteered" to honor Karl-Marx-Stadt by clearing rubble from the streets for 720 hours without...