Word: kappel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sudden lift of the curtain, the harsh blare of the brasses establish perfectly the mood for Elektra's maniacal lust to avenge the death of her father Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until...
...published by Edward Gushing (pseudonym: Suetonius Jr.), able critic and newsgatherer of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It included Massenet's Herodiade and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, operas in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will presumably have the leading roles; Strauss's Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers who have signed contracts are famed Basso Ivar Andresen and German Soprano Frieda Leider...
...Manhattan. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, famed for her Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...
...Gertrude Kappel Marion Talley
...much of lesser opportunities-George Meader with his David (Meister singer), Gustav Schuetzendorf with his Beckmesser (Meister singer), Florence Easton with whatever she does in her cool, intelligent way, be it Sieglinde (Walküre), Eva (Meistersinger), Brunnhilde (the Ring). There is now most important of all Soprano Gertrude Kappel who arrived recently from Munich, gave such beautiful performances of Isolde, of Brunnhilde in Walküre and Gotterdammerung as to make die-hards swallow their last struggling complaints of "no Wagnerian sopranos'' and set her down reverently as one of the Fremstad...