Word: tiefland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temperamentally she was unable to push herself. As a child she sang arias because she liked to, not because she aspired to opera. Her mother who coached singers was responsible for her debut. Someone was needed for the role of Nuri in D'Albert's Tiefland. Flagstad learned the part in two days. After that she plodded along conscientiously, singing now in light opera, now in grand, taking what engagements she could get because she had a daughter to support by an early marriage which had proved unsuccessful...