Word: gurnemanz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 Pollak's orchestra, from a reverent audience that had bought every one of the 75?-$4 seats.* But so well did she sing & act that most of those who saw & heard her were far more interested in Kundry's screaming, crawling, writhing, seducing, sobbing than...
Next day's Parsifal was orchestrally poignant, lyric. Slower than most was Toscanini's tender reading. A magnificent Gurnemanz (Basso Ivar Andresen of the Metropolitan), a poetic Parsifal (Tenor Fritz Wolff), a comely but vocally insecure Kundry (Soprano Elisabeth Ohms), sang their way through Wagner's leisurely, sometimes philosophically turbid drama. The sets "dated from 1882 and looked...
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