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Show WILLIAMS and DUNCAN CAMILLA WILLIAMS and TODD DUNCAN are two of America’s best-loved artists. Each has achieved an enviable reputation in a wide variety of musical fields both at home and abroad. Close personal friends, they have won a host of admirers across the continent for their appearances in joint recital as well as on solo tour. MISS WILLIAMS is the latest American sensation abroad. A smash-hit recital in London introduced her in the spring of 1954 and she went on to win extraordinary praise at the great international festivals of Vienna, Berlin and Salzburg and in other cities of Germany, Holland and Switzerland. Last April she made her debut, as Madame Butterfly, with the Vienna State Opera. Overnight she became the darling of that opera-loving city. She had to repeat her performance four more times, before cheering, sold-out houses, and was signed for the entire 1955 fall season, when she again scored triumphs in “Butterfly” and in the Vienna premiere of Menotti’s Pulizer Prize winning “The Saint of Bleecker Street.” Ther European engagements have included appearances with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony, sold-out Lieder recitals in Vienna, “Aida” in Switzerland, numerous concert and radio performances. Miss Williams was born in Danville, Va. She won the Marian Anderson Award twice and the Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Contest. She made a tradition-shattering debut as Madame Butterfly with the New York City Opera in 1946 and has since scored in “Pagliacci,” “La Boheme,” “Turandot” and “Aida.” She has been soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony and many others, twice in the Hollywood Bowl. She has toured Central and South American and Alaska, in addition to her annual North American concert tours. She has starred on radio, television and recordings. Last summer she won new laurels as Violetta in a concert version of “La Traviata” in New York’s Lewisohn Stadium concerts. TODD DUNCAN was born in Danville, Ky., and raised in Indiana. He received his B.A. from Butler College and his M.A. from Columbia University and was teaching at Howard University when called upon to create the leading male role in George Gershwin’s great American opera, “Porgy and Bess.” As Porgy, Todd Duncan achieved immorality. Since then he has become an internationally famous concert artist also. He has toured North America annually, appeared as soloist with leading symphony orchestras, been featured on radio and recordings. With the New York City Opera Company, he has sung Tonio in “Pagliacci” and Escamillo in “Carmen.” He has been lauded in South America, Australia and Europe. His concert career has been interrupted several times by demands to return to the stage. He spent a year and a half in London’s Drury Lane in “The Sun Never Sets” with Leslie Banks and Edna Best. He repeated his great creation of Porgy in the first revival run of the Gershwin opus, and was back on Broadway with Ethel Waters in the memorable musical. “Cabin in the Sky.” In 1949 he had to cut short his second tour of Australia to create the role of the Reverend Stephen Kumalo in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical play, “Los in the Stars.” For two seasons on Broadway and on tour, the singing actor enjoyed another rare personal success. Last season the baritone made his debut as a motion picture actor in the Hall Bartlett production, “Unchained,” in which he sang the melody that swept the nation. He then embarked on another tour abroad which took him again throughout Scandinavia, Holland, Austria, Italy and, for the first time, to Israel. Miss Williams records for Columbia, RCA Victor and MGM Records Mr. Duncan records for Allegro Records MISS WILLIAMS and MR. DUNCAN are managed by COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT Inc. PERSONAL DIRECTION: JUDSON, O’NEILL & JUDD 113 WEST 57TH ST., NEW YORK 19, N.Y. |