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Obituary: Poss Grey
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"POSS". WHY was she called "Poss" Grey? Maybe she gave herself
the nickname? She always said a cosmetic nose-job went wonky and
made her look like a possum. She was one of the great English
characters.
I first met Nevart Smith (as she was then) when she was running
the Britannia Inn in Elterwater in the Lake District. It was the
weekend of the Cuban missile crisis, October 1962. I had spent a
long day distracting myself from dangerous politics by trying to
locate the graves of Kurt Schwitters and Beatrix Potter. My
information about Schwitters was correct (Ambleside churchyard) but I
could ...
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`Salome' without cliche // Bondy, Malfitano breathe new life into opera
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...conspirators in the production of "Salome" that is now blistering the walls of...Gerard Mortier asked Bondy to tackle "Salome," which is based on Oscar Wilde's...Bondy said between rehearsals before "Salome" opened at Lyric Opera of Chicago last...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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TACKLING `SALOME' A DEFINING MOMENT IN SOPRANO'S CAREER.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...major singers - that Richard Strauss's "Salome" would be big in the career of soprano...said. "It is such a challenge to sing Salome. You never feel you have captured every aspect of the role." Warren began to sing Salome, at 31, in Salt Lake City, a little...
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Wilde's 'Salome.'.(Oscar Wilde's play)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...afterward, Wilde wrote a second play, Salome, and he included in it eight references...author of this new play. But the fan in Salome also serves a functional and symbolic...the one in Lady Windermere's Fan. In Salome the fan is associated with all four main...
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Wilde's "Salome".(19th-century writer Oscar Wilde)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; Wilde's Salome has a tripartite structure. The moon-goddess Cybele, Salome, and Herodias, for instance, represent the same...with three colors--white, black, and red; Salome in wooing him approaches him three times. The language...
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"The Call of Salome": American adaptations and re-creations of the female body in the early twentieth century.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Women & Music
; ...most efficacious safeguard known against the Salome dance--and hurriedly isolated." The Salome jokes continued. "It is rumored," he reported...that Oscar Hammerstein will introduce the 'Salome' dance into every opera to be given by him...
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NOTHING WILDE ABOUT THIS `SALOME' STORY DOWNFALL OF PLAY IS DULL DIALOGUE.(Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...up because I just saw a production of ``Salome,'' an 1892 drama by Oscar Wilde. ``Salome'' had the honor (or the ``accolade...majesty's counterpart of Jesse Helms found ``Salome'' to be blasphemous and unwholesome. A...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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'SALOME' STILL RAISES EYEBROWS OPERA'S SIZZLING OPENER.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Richard Strauss' ''Salome'' is definitely not the biblical story...the opera's new production of ''Salome'' Thursday and Saturday at Music Hall...eroticism. Instead of a dutiful daughter, Salome is a horrific predator, whose infatuation...
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Metropolitan Opera: Salome
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...translated from Oscar Wilde's French play Salome THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance...Wiekl Cappadocian--bass, LeRoy Lehr Salome--soprano, Catherine Malfitano Slave...gazes rapturously inside at the Princess Salome, who is feasting with her stepfather...
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Salome
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; R. STRAUSS Salome & * Philippe Jordan, cond; Nadja Michael (Salome); Michaela Schuster (Herodias); Thomas Moser...this should be viewed as Director David McVicar's Salome or soprano Nadja Michael's Salome. McVicar is certifiably...
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Singers, orchestra deliver sensational 'Salome'.(ARTS)(OPERA)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Strauss' extravagant one-act opera "Salome" dazzles with its acting and singing...Kennedy Center Opera House, but this "Salome" provides a sensational evening of musical...originally penned in French, Strauss' "Salome" was first performed in 1905. It was...
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