Word: kappel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosenkavalier. Others find its eery, passionate songs unforgettable. These were more than grateful when Artur Rodzinski announced he would put on a concert version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing Gertrude Kappel sing again the part she had made a masterpiece four seasons ago. At the last moment, however, Soprano Kappel was taken sick, could not leave Berlin. Soprano Rosa Pauly, hailed as the greatest Strauss heroine on the Continent, came instead, to sing her first role...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...
...Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...
...Gertrude Kappel who, older and more experienced than Flagstad, has been the Metropolitan's most dependable Wagnerian since...
...Wagner concert Arturo Toscanini gave for his season's farewell in Manhattan last week left everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...