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...week stay in Boston at the Opera House has been announced for Monday, April 1. Wagner's "Die Walkure" is the opening presentation, and contains a remarkable cast. Lotte Lehmann is to sing the part of Sieglinde, a role in which she has become justly famous, and Kirsten Flagstad that of Brunhilde. Two other Wagnerian operas, "Lohengrin" and "Die Meistersinger," are to be given on Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before...
...capable of vitalizing this heroic female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan last week when it was sung for the first time by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the Metropolitan's new Norwegian import (TIME...
Vocally Kirsten Flagstad's performance last week was the best that has been heard in Manhattan for many a year. The audience cheered her at every curtain call and critics fairly wallowed in superlatives. The amazing part of her success was that she had never sung the rôle before, never had an orchestra rehearsal, never practiced with any member of the cast. Withal she seemed sure and confident on the stage. Her strong rich voice was expressive in every phase, her gestures admirably restrained. Most critics led their readers to believe that her interpretation was practically perfect...
Frida Leider, whose absence from the U. S. this winter gave Flagstad her job. Leider figured that with the devalued dollar and the short Metropolitan season she could make more money by remaining in Europe...
Gertrude Kappel who, older and more experienced than Flagstad, has been the Metropolitan's most dependable Wagnerian since...