![]() ![]() She understudied leading lady Helen Traubel and played her role forty two times during the show's run. In 1955, Kobart made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream. I came out on stage and shouted my head off, and believe it or not, I found my way." Regarding her role as Madame Pernelle in Tartuffe at the Geary Theater, she wrote: "I had a big voice and a big body. She played Madame Pace in the world premiere of Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the NYCO in 1959. For the NBC, she also created the role of Arina in the premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage. With the NBCOT she notably created the role of Agata in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Maria Golovin at the Expo '58 in Brussels on Auglater the same year she portrayed the role on Broadway. She frequently toured with the NBC Opera Theatre (NBCOT) and the New York City Opera (NYCO). Born as Ruth Maxine Kahn in Des Moines, Iowa, Kobart studied opera at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and made her professional debut as the Witch in an off-Broadway production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. ![]()
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