Word: yourselfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The only Carmen in operatic history to commit suicide was an opulently constructed New Jersey girl named Gussie Seit. That was seven years ago, at the Chicago Lyric Opera, after terrible-tempered Tenor David Poleri, appearing as Don José, stalked off the stage in the final act snarling at...
In her comparatively brief operatic career, 29-year-old Mezzo Lane has made something of a specialty of dying gracefully. The daughter of an immigrant Russian harnessmaker, she heard her first music in a Trenton synagogue where her father was baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens...
But pressure has done nothing to repress his spirit. Cousteau can delight in eccentric garb ranging from crimson sweaters to Russian astrakhan hats. Or he can turn serious, hold an audience rapt as he talks of his vocation: "I used to dream of flying-the classic attempt to get away...
Inviting the Chicago Sun-Times's Irv Kupcinet and the New York Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old...
The Voice Stopped. Tenor Tucker, who had been standing in the wings joking with General Manager Rudolf Bing and Warren's wife Agatha, had just commented, "What a glorious voice!" when the voice stopped, and he turned to see Warren on the floor. He ran onstage as the curtain...