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Last week, singing Sieglinde opposite such champions as Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel made her official Metropolitan debut. Manhattan's debutasters trooped in droves to hear her, stayed to cheer, for they heard one of the finest heavyweight Wagnerian soprano voices to turn up at the Metropolitan since Kirsten Flagstad's debut...
...most gut-busting of German opera roles. But in the days when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned...
...plump, Norfolk-born daughter of a Methodist minister, who had been studying for several years with courtly Manhattan Vocal Coach John Alan Haughton. The picked audience of musicians and critics who heard her run the gamut from Wagnerian hallelujahs to coloratura tinkletones spoke of her as a native Flagstad...
Asked in a Los Angeles interview why opera had never been cinemadapted, well-fed Kirsten Flagstad replied: "We opera singers don't look very well. We would not look nice in close...
Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior...