Word: fricka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 18). When Gertrud Ruenger, originally a contralto at the Vienna Staatsoper, took the soprano role of Brünnhilde, she sounded shrill and lifeless. John Brownlee, a young Australian baritone, made an indifferent Rigoletto. But Kerstin Thorborg raised the recruits' average with a splendid Fricka...
Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...