Word: wittich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent, passionate score and its scenes of perverted eroticism, first burst on the public consciousness in 1905, it scared the censors out of their frock coats and orchestras half out of their pits. The one-act opera was banned in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York. Even Soprano Marie Wittich, who appeared in the title role at the world premiere in Dresden, threatened for a time to withdraw because "I am a decent woman...
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