Word: thebom
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
...tall girl with dark brown braids and a mezzo-soprano voice stepped out on the Metropolitan Opera's gilt-framed stage for the first time. Making her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre, Blanche Thebom (pronounced thee-bum), 25, threw Manhattan's normally low-pressure music critics into fits of excitement: "Remarkable! ... a natural . . . strikingly handsome . . . exceptional vocal endowments...
That was last December. Last week, in her second big Met role (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde), Thebom did it again. The sustained critical cheers confirmed her triumph: not only had she successfully made the rare and perilous jump from a Baptist church choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan's stage, but she could plan to stay a while...
Then, early last year, everything happened at once. She sang at Town Hall; the Met rushed over with a contract. Hollywood's Gregory Ratoff began looking for what he called a touch of "class" for his cinema biography of Composer Ernest R. Ball; two weeks later, Thebom was in Hollywood singing Mother Machree and Dear Little Boy of Mine. The cameras caught her twice, briefly, but she added the necessary class to the movie called Irish Eyes Are Smiling...