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...Kirsten Flagstad, greatest soprano of U.S. opera, who untold times has ho-yo-to-hoed Brünnhilde's clarion calls, last week seemed to be in Brünnhilde's plight-hemmed in by a ring of fire. From Oslo in her native Norway, whither she flew last April to join her husband, came a report that her husband said that Flagstad would remain there until war ends...
...only question was whether her husband said it and knew what he was talking about. Soprano Flagstad departed from the U.S. with little money and clothing, left a daughter and a stepdaughter there, promised to return in September for 80 concert and opera engagements. The Metropolitan's General Manager Edward Johnson, whose box office would be hard hit by the loss of Flagstad, hopefully doubted the report from Oslo. Said he: "I'm a little suspicious of a catch...
...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...
...Victor Symphony and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur; Victor: 10 sides; $5.50). In fine fettle, so well in the groove that you can almost see him bounding Wagneriously, Tenor Melchior gives voice to airs from Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger, Flying Dutchman, Siegfried. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joins him in the opening duet from Die Göiterdämmerung...
...time, cigar-smoking (box-a-day) McArthur studied orchestra scores, practiced waving a stick before a mirror. An ear-splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks...