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...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 Braun...
...Such a question," replied Soprano Braun placidly...
...Helena Braun had dashed down to the Met, tried on a costume, had a few quick, calming words with Wagnerian Conductor Fritz Stiedry and got herself a membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists. Then she went home to rest till curtain time...
...time for a rehearsal -and no critical need for one, operatic acting being as internationally stylized as it is. That night the surprised audience saw a new blonde Brünnhilde moving around the stage as though she had been singing at the Met all her life. Said Helena Braun's husband, who as Wotan was on stage with her most of the time: "We watched each other for mistakes but there were none." The critics cheered her acting performance, generally agreed that her voice, if tremolo-ridden, was strong, wide-ranging and well used...
...Soprano Braun there was a special bit of backstage applause too. Manager Johnson handed her a Met contract, promised her a chance to sing some more Wagner before she and her husband leave for scheduled performances in Italy in February...