Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
...Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband shared with the Zenatellos. She cancelled her contract to pay them 15% of her earnings, discharged them as her agents...
...Swedish soprano made many forget all these mumblings & grumblings last week. She was Goeta Ljungberg (pronounced Zhöta Yungberg), tall, blonde, beautiful. For her debut she sang Sieglinde in Die Walküre as if she really believed that sisters sometimes met their brothers far from nowhere, loved them instantly and consumingly...
...made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar...
Leverett House will be entertained by a concert on the harpsichord tomorrow following its seventh House dinner to be held at 6.30 o'clock. The concert will be given by Putnam Aldrich, who made his debut at a private recital in Cambridge last night, following his three years of study in France. Aldrich will play in the Junior Common Room and will be assisted in one number by Malcolm Holmes 1G at the plane...