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Kiepura

American  
[kee-poor-uh] / kiˈpʊər ə /

noun

  1. Jan (Wiktor) 1904?–66, Polish tenor.


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In New York, Mr. Kiepura sang with the Metropolitan Opera in the late 1930s and early ’40s.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2013

For decades, she practically owned the title role in Lehar’s most famous operetta, “The Merry Widow”; she sang it thousands of times, often opposite her husband, the celebrated Polish tenor Jan Kiepura.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2013

It's a very nice place, a little off the beaten track, and what's more it was founded by Jan Kiepura, the famous tenor.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

The complications intervening until the curtain can fall on the Kiepura & Swarthout reunion, after a superb aria in Romeo & Juliet, are concerned with bringing him back, getting rid of the drunken self-worshipping tenor.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth.

From Time Magazine Archive

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