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The unsinkable: Shirley Verrett: as she reveals in her recently published autobiography, this formidable American artist was often tough, uncompromising and ready to fight.(Biography)
A diva's life is marked by constant motion--jetting from one engagement to another, changing time zones, longitudes and latitudes until cities, countries and even continents zip by in a blur. But time and age reduce the whirl to slow motion. When the frenzy settles and sunset slips in, twilight enhances reflection on the life left behind. While Shirley Verrett, healthy and energetic at seventy-two, may not yet stand in the full glow of a setting sun, the light is still good for looking back.
Days spent in transit from one opera capital to another have given way to short morning drives through Ann Arbor to her studio on the University of Michigan campus, a quick ...
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