tragedies
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“Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie, is director Pablo Larraín’s latest effort to build his own canon of 20th-century tragediennes.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Four years later she won a Tony for best actress in one of her most acclaimed roles, that of Medea, underlining her credentials as one of theatre's leading tragediennes.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2020
In Hollywood, tragediennes started considering retirement: war had produced a shortage of menthol spray, which had produced tears.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stories of this type hold expansive possibilities for romantic tragediennes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miolan-Carvalho in Faust—excellent singing—I now heard the tragediennes like Penco and Frezzolini and such men as Mario, Graziani, Delle Sedie, and the buffo Zucchini.
From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules
