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Actress and singer Lotte Lenya opens as Ismene in Sophocles's Oedipus auf Kolonos at the Berliner Staatstheater, Berlin, Germany. She is perhaps best remembered for her performances of songs written by her husband, Kurt Weill, but jazz fans may remembers that she gets a personal mention in the Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin versions of the massive international hit song Mack The Knife.
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