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...building at No. 20 Wacker Drive, a separate corporation. Chicago Opera contracts have been on a yearly basis. An appeal for $500,000 failing last January, no new ones were made. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera took its pick of the available artists, signed up for next year Soprano Frida Leider, Tenor Tito 'Schipa, Baritone Richard Bonelli (TIME, May 30). Lately the Metropolitan engaged also German Soprano Lotte Lehmann and stately Contralto Maria Olszewska. The Philadelphia Opera will probably get Tenor Paul Althouse for at least part of its season, and Baritone John Charles Thomas who will also sing...
...company which gives opera every night needs several leading tenors. Tenor Gigli inherited many of his best roles from the late great Enrico Caruso. To succeed Gigli Mr. Gatti has chosen Tenor Tito Schipa, another short, plump Italian, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera.* Also from Chicago will come Frida Leider, great Wagnerian Soprano long coveted by the Metropolitan. Tenor Gustaaf de Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire...
...time in nearly nine years. Only great musicand equally great acting can convince a modern audience that a good woman would make it her business to go around seducing Christians just because she is under the spell of a magician. Last week, great music and the magnificent acting of Frida Leider carried a Chicago audience reverently through Wagner's famed Temptation Scene wherein Parsifal, purest of fools, resists and reforms her. No one denied that Frida Leider had able assistance from a good cast that included René Maison as Parsifal and Alexander Kipnis as Gurnemanz. from Maestro Egon...
...Frida Leider is a famed Kundry, has sung the role many times at Bayreuth, will do so again in 1933. Painstaking, she studies hard, practices much, once spent a year perfecting one phase of her interpretation of Isolde. She sings in Berlin, at Covent Garden, went to Buenos Aires last summer, is a friend of Professor Einstein...
...Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner's famed soliloquy on the comedy of human ways. Symphonic...