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...potent Chinese who thus sounded basso profundo last week was Yen Hsishan, hairy-chested "Model Governor" of Shansi province, the man who has kept his own province peaceable while civil war has festered the rest of China, the leader of this year's spring rebellion against the Nationalist Government...
...Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
...Louise in no way threatened the Garden prerogative. Her singing, usually far "better, was last week shrill. Her acting was pretty but stilted, as was that of tenor Antonin Trantoul who was Julien, her lover. Better characterizations were those of Contralto Marion Telva as the ill-tempered mother; of Basso Leon Rothier as the father so dumbly doting that he drove Louise back to Julien and the free-and-easy Paris. The audience appeared to appreciate most Max Bloch who as an old-clothesman stalked on the stage and off wearing half a dozen toppling, ill-assorted hats...
...Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers who have signed contracts are famed Basso Ivar Andresen and German Soprano Frieda Leider, now with the Chicago Civic Opera and presumably not to join the Metropolitan until 1931. A possibility, too, is Soprano Eleanor Steele, 20, of Mansfield, Ohio...
Famed French musicians are few-the U. S. public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering...