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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...
...radio performance of Beethoven's masterpiece, Fidelia, finally broke the spell. The first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro...
Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
...productions (all revivals): Orpheus and Eurydice, Falstaff, Louise, Boris Godounoff, Thais, Fidelia...