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After a praiseworthy career like a mezzo-soprano, Rose Bampton produced the transition to dramatic soprano, keeping much, if not absolutely all, from the plushness and warmth of her highly sympathetic voice. The stage upwards in 1937 arrived without a amount of drawback, creating a predicament that discovered her performing Amneris …

Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was among the glamour statistics of opera in the 1930s and 1940s — a strikingly handsome guy using a virile tone of voice and a lot of dramatic skill. He started his career controlling between play and music, at one stage acting within a Shakespeare firm aimed …