Word: erna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ERNA J. FAST...
...make up in tenderness and charm what she lacked in opulence. Contralto Risë Stevens' attractive singing as Octavian was marred only by her unattractive grimacing. Even so, with Veteran Bass Eugene List as Baron Ochs, and with the help of two new imports, Dresden's Coloratura Erna Berger as a pert, brilliant Sophie, and Vienna's Buffo-Tenor Peter Klein as Valzacchi, Der Rosenkavalier added up to an opening-night success...
Under "Antics at the Met" [TIME, Dec. 8], your critic makes note of Soprano Erna Schleuter's "sickening, undulating vibrato." No doubt what he meant was a ... tremolo...
...Isolde. Last week, looking for someone to fill one big gap, the Metropolitan served up a real Thanksgiving turkey. To share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...
...Refugee Erna Barschak presents her in this compassionate and entertaining "intimate study" as a rich sheaf of sorrows and symbols, a difficult but by no means unsympathetic human being...