Word: ella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title role of Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
Arabella. Says Ella: "Strauss loved my musicality. I used to go to his house. He liked to play poker, but I never play with him because he win very much." Last month a New York Times critic called her Tosca "The most completely satisfactory Tosca . . . this city has heard in recent years...
...rehearsed Ariadne from a score annotated for her by Strauss 15 years ago. But Manhattan critics, busy passing out bravos all around for the City Opera's Ariadne, were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around looking like the Statue of Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann...
Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman's right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was "nobody but my husband." Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket) Fitzgerald, Stone Cold Dead in the Market has sold over half a million records. It is climbing into the big ten on the Hit Parade even though it is banned on two networks-NBC and ABC-because murder is nothing to brag about...
...stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky Pearl Bailey, who stops the show with Legalize My Name in Broadway's St. Louis Woman...