Word: destinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late supper: buxom Emmy Destinn, one of the greatest operatic dramatic sopranos of the time (1907), and the slender young Polish pianist and boulevardier Arthur Rubinstein. Rubinstein gallantly began to discuss music...
...right, all right," she screamed, smashing her champagne glass, "I know I am a good singer, but I am also a woman." Obviously, Emmy Destinn was thinking about making a different kind of music...
...time, he was deeply involved with another woman, yet suddenly was "expected to prove that I was a man." That was only the first shock. The second was discovering that Destinn had a tattoo of a boa constrictor circling her leg from the ankle to the upper thigh. "I am afraid I was not at my best that night, but she seemed not to mind...