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...symphonies together still accounted for less than half of the performances going on; as usual, the smaller halls were filled with so many trios, quartets, pianists, choruses and sopranos that even the dutiful New York Times didn't try to cover them all. This week, with a Kirsten Flagstad Isolde and a Toscanini performance of Verdi's Requiem (see below), looked just as dazzling. In short, Manhattan was in midseason...
...charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since she left it in 1941 to go to her husband in Nazi-occupied Norway, Walter Winchell and others set up a drumfire heard across the nation. Said Bing calmly: "Quality and quality alone is to be the test. If there...
...topflight Casts for almost any of its performances. No other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
Grieg: Haugtussa (Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Edwin McArthur, piano; Victor, 2 sides LP). Grieg's rustic cycle of eight songs might never be missed, but as a vehicle for Flagstad's glorious soprano they are worth hearing. Recording: good...
...night, the audience in San Francisco's opera house found huge (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.) and handsome Tenor Vinay visually, if not vocally, a heroic match for Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Wrote San Francisco Chronicle Critic Alfred Frankenstein: "To be sure, [Vinay] did not bring the music all the suppleness and vocal ease one hoped for, but he brought it something else that was almost equally important-a tenderness, lyricism and fragility of expression that were altogether unprecedented. For once, Tristan's ravings in the third act seemed only five times too long instead...