Word: contralto
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...conclusion of the Wagner Cycle (TIME, Feb. 12). The opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear her at the Metropolitan. Chicago had her for a few performances in 1931 and 1932. From Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and London have come ecstatic reports of her Leonore in Fidelia, her Marschallin...
...fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus...
...called out the scenes and acts and whatever comments Gertrude Stein had chosen to make. There were two Saint Thereses, called Saint Therese I and Saint Therese II. They both wore flowing cardinal costumes, appeared to have the same identity, except that one was a soprano, the other a contralto...
Wrestling Bradford should have married Plentiful Tewke. Her father, Praise-God Tewke, told him so in the first act, set in front of a log-cabin church. But Plentiful (Contralto Gladys Swarthout) wanted to take a maiden's time and Wrestling was impatient. Pretty Marigold Sandys (Goeta Ljungberg) came to Quincy with the giddy Cavaliers. They were bent on building a Maypole, dancing on the Holy Sabbath, an offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly...
Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...