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Leyla Gencer - Attila

Jerome Hines (playing Attila in this record): I worked with Gencer at the tail end of her career, and she was not quite so gentle and sweet. I don't think she intended to be gentle and sweet. She had her dresser running out the door in hysterics, crying. When she walked into the theater she decided she wanted my dressing room instead of hers and I was bumped out even though we were doing Attila and I had the title role. The stage director told her, "Now please, don't stand there after the end of the aria and pose 30 seconds, waiting for applause. You must go off." She agreed, but when the time came did as she darn pleased. For the ballroom scene I wanted to come in with a cheetah on a chain and arranged for the opera company to rent one. They are gentle, more or less, and more tamable than other leopards. But came the dress rehearsal and they told me the cheetah had caught cold (I think they were just chickening out). I entered the ballroom scene and sat down next to Gencer. She said, "Where's the cheetah?" I said, "The cheetah caught cold and when they get sick they get nasty." She smiled and said, "Just like me!" From that remark I took it that we were witnessing her usual behavior.