Word: astride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insure more thorough rehearsing, he had been talking to the singers about spending more time at the Met. Most of them, he said, including Tenors Jussi Bjoerling and Set Svanholm, Sopranos Astrid Varnay and Dorothy Kirsten, Contraltos Blanche Thebom and Risë Stevens, "have already agreed to work with me . . ." He promised to "make every effort to find the best artists among Americans." But, said he, "where I cannot find them, I will bring in Europeans." Since Edward Johnson's casting assistant, Frank St. Leger, had turned in his resignation, Rudi Bing would do most of the casting himself...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Simon Boccanegra, with Leonard Warren and Astrid Varnay...
...rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able to go on as Brünnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz, who was scheduled to sing Wotan that night, had sung Brünnhilde in Vienna and Munich. Musical Director Max Rudolf picked up the phone and called Madame Frantz (stage name: Helena...