Word: bassos
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William Gustafson, Metropolitan Opera basso, moved out of the La Rochelle...
Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso profundo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being entertained by the Berlin Actors' Club, was asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After...
Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
...music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Sachs (Meistersinger), Gunther (Götterdämmerung); Basso Michael Bohnen, big, commanding as King Marke (Tristan), as Hagen (Götterdämmerung); Baritone Clarence Whitehill, impressive always for the kindness, the dignity of his Amfortas (Parsifal), his Hans Sachs. Many of the routine artists make much of lesser opportunities-George Meader with his David (Meister singer), Gustav...
...Moscow, the Soviet Government took unto itself the estate of Basso Feodore Ivanovitch Chaliapin. Last August they had stripped him of his title "People's Artist" and of his other estate (in Yaroslavsk Province) because, they charged, he had helped Tsarists to escape Russia...