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Denyce Graves — whatever happened to her? Well, for one thing, she has apparently married well. Yesterday the mezzo-soprano wed Robert Montgomery — not the 1940s film star, but rather the chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins. (He’s the surgeon whose team pioneered the transplant technique of removing a donor’s kidney through her vagina.) [Washington Post]
Oh my goodness, those whiskers! They make me instinctively cross my legs. Yikes.
Man has the highest style facial hair of 1885. Maybe it tickles her–OK I’m not going to go there.
Early on Graves was a really strong performer. It wasn’t the greatest voice in the world for technical polish, but it worked, it was pretty and she was (probably still is) a real stage animal as well as a beautiful woman. In the 90s I saw her Carmen once and Dalila twice (S&D is a “guilty pleasure” for me) and she made an impact. I’m always sorry to see a performer like Graves suffer a vocal crisis–she brought both glamor and some excitement to her work.