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...make her operatic debut in d'Albert's Tiefland. She had only a small voice, but critics agreed that its quality was pleasing and that she was "very musical.'' After that she made rapid strides, and the world beyond Oslo inevitably heard of Kirsten Flagstad. Last week, 40 years to the day after her debut and after one of the great operatic careers of the 20th century. Soprano Flagstad sang goodby on the same stage...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Norwegian music, drama and folklore. Starring Kirsten Flagstad...
...Manhattan, the National Arts Foundation announced its selection of the top artists of 1952: Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, whose 38-figure Fountain of Faith was unveiled in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va. last fall; Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who made her farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera last spring; Dramatist Sean (Cock-adoodle Dandy) O'Casey, "the most magnificent prose writer in the modern theater"; and the Dancers of Bali...
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene (with thunderstorm) and, of course, love both requited and tragic. Highlight: Flagstad singing When I Am Laid in Earth...
...Says Flagstad: "I am going to sing every day as long as I have a voice ... as long as it suits me, as long as I feel for it. I don't think it will be for so very long...