Kiepura
Americannoun
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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
In New York, Mr. Kiepura sang with the Metropolitan Opera in the late 1930s and early ’40s.
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 perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor.
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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