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Beauty does not exist without brains

Beauty does not exist without brains

Grace Bumbry in conversation with Opernwelt

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As the Countess in Pique Dame - Vienna 2013

Interview : Kai Luehrs-Kaiser

In the sixties and seventies you were the first mezzo-soprano with a glamour factor. A prima donna. Is that what you wanted?

How could you want that? You do your work, that's all. If then what you describe is the result : well, that's fine. I always wanted to serve the composer and m…

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