Word: fricka
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...happy as a child. . . . Think of it! Singing almost 50 years before the public and still able to do my Erda, my Magdalena and maybe my Fricka next winter. You know I am 64 years old and I learned a long time ago not to do more than I am able. And I am able to sing those roles again. Isn't it wonderful...
...part of the audiences. Richard Wagner used to insist on live beasts on the stage for his various animal-parts, and his widow, Cosima Wagner, who is running this show, insists on the same. 'Consequently this year's crop of Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad-and, of course, the Dragon. Where the Dragon was found for this year's performance, one is unable to discover at this distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner...
...Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad...
...performance of "Siegfried" in the Stadium a year ago, is in charge of the affair, which will be conducted along the same general lines as was the opera last June, but enlarged. Many noted singers are to take part,-Mme. Johanna Gadski as Brunhilde; Mme. Schumann-Heink, as Fricka; Mme. Melaine Kurt, as Sieglinde; M. Johannes Sembach, as Siemunde; Clarence Whitehill, as Waton; Carl Braun, as Hunding, and other Metropolitan stars...