Word: gertrud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other new singers were less impressive. Vina Bovy sang carelessly, seldom felt any obligation to act (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...
...singers, many of whom Johnson inherited with his job, turned out to be another problem. Out of 19, only two achieved real success. Australian Soprano Marjorie Lawrence sang Brunnehilde dramatically, if unevenly, startled operagoers by mounting a horse in Gotterdammerung and galloping off stage as Wagner prescribed. Scrawny Swedish Gertrud Wettergren proved to be a siren as Amneris in Aida, a sensitive Brangane...
Contracts, Plans. When Edward Johnson sailed home from Europe this summer, he carried in his trunk as many contracts, in his head as many new plans, as anyone could desire. He had hired such singers as Poland's Gertrud Riinger, whose dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended...
...black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with the Stockholm Opera in 1922, took parts in two Swedish talking pictures, excited Manhattan audiences last winter by the sparkle and passion of her Carmen, so endeared her singing to Sweden's King Gustaf V that he made...
Appointed. Gertrud Wettergren, able Swedish mezzo-soprano of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.): to be court singer, by Sweden's King Gustav...