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...Kirsten Flagstad, ex-Metropolitan Opera star who has been in Norway since 1941, said she now wanted to return to the U.S. With Husband Henry Johansen in jail as a suspected quisling (he built barracks for Germans), Flagstad denied that she herself had ever collaborated, admitted that she had been booed in Stockholm, but "I don't know...
...Kirsten Flagstad, 49, whose famed Wagnerian ho-yo-to-hos have not resounded in the Metropolitan Opera since she joined her husband in Nazi-held Norway four years ago, planned to return to the U.S. "to see my daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which...
...Kirsten Flagstad, world's greatest Wagnerian soprano and onetime top star of the Metropolitan, who has conspicuously refrained from appearing in Nazi or Nazi-controlled opera houses, but is living in semi-retirement with her quisling husband Henry Johansen in occupied Norway...
Wagner: Bridal Chamber Scene from Lohengrin (Victor Symphony, Edwin McArthur conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad, soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Victor; 4 sides). Grade A performance and recording; Flagstad at her finest...
...year ago last spring, Soprano Lawrence was riding the crest. She had given U.S. operagoers six lessons of sturdy, full-throated Wagnerian song. At a time when the mighty Kirsten Flagstad dominated the Metropolitan, Marjorie Lawrence's star was bright enough not to be eclipsed. Off stage, the Australian soprano doted on swimming, tennis, horseback riding; on stage, she seemed equally brimful of health. As Brünnhilde, she surprised and delighted operaphiles by leaping astride her horse and galloping off in an almost unheard-of concurrence with Wagner's stage directions. Less in character, though a triumph...