Word: elektra
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...allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title role in his production of Strauss's Elektra and nobody alive is better qualified. For the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, he was to have Soprano Lotte Lehmann...
...serious radio music was the engagement of Arturo Toscanini to return from retirement and broadcast next winter with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME. Feb. 15). Three weeks ago Manhattan music lovers heard one of the greatest concerts of the season when Artur Rodzinski conducted his special version of Elektra. And last week NBC created another happy radio flurry by also appointing Rodzinski to its concert podium and by making public plans for a whole year of fine music...
...Elektra is a difficult opera in which to make a debut. It is doubly hard on the concert stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...
...Cologne Opera. In 1927 he took her to the newly founded Berlin Kroll Opera, starred her in nearly every premiere. Later she went to the Paris Opera and the Budapest Op era. Now Rosa Pauly sings most often in Vienna. Strauss picked her to sing his Elektra at the Coronation Operas in Lon don this spring...
Pauly was to leave this week for Prague. At the Coronation she will' hear Artur Rodzinski conduct again. Critics who heaped praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...