Word: fidelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salzburg hadn't looked so healthy in years-not since 1937 when Toscanini made it glow with Die Meistersinger and Fidelia. Store windows were chuck-full of cameras, Meissen china, English woolens. Last week thousands of music lovers poured into Salzburg for its famed music festival, and for the first time since the war found it something like old times...
...title role in Bizet's Carmen? Soprano Winifred Hieidt had been taken ill in Chicago. Regina had sung the role in French only once, two years ago. She was still tired from a trip to Colorado, where she had sung Leonore in 13 performances of Beethoven's Fidelia. But by 2 p.m. she was on a plane for Canada, studying the score en route...
Conductor Bruno Walter picked her to sing Leonore in an English version of Fidelia in 1945. Wrote the New York Times's Senior Music Pundit Olin Downes: "[She] showed that she had the voice, the high intelligence and the dramatic sincerity required for Leonore's great role. . . . The voice is of a warm color and stamina and resourcefulness throughout its range...
Home-Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
Unlucky Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...