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...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...
...contestants and the impressions they made on 20 artist-judges gave the occasion its importance. In the judges' chairs sat such worthies as Composer Arnold Schönberg, Conductor Tullio Serafin, Tenors Paul Althouse and Giovanni Martinelli, Sopranos Gertrude Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship...
...best musicians have taken safer jobs with other orchestras. The San Francisco Opera Company has been held up since Depression as a model to every opera-giving city in the U. S. It has had world-famed singers, this year Lucrezia, Bori, Claudia Muzio, Giovanni Martinelli, Ezio Pinza, Gertrude Kappel, Cyrena Van Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year, to no one's great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself by having Arturo...
...Soprano Kappel sang the difficult music beautifully, enacted the crack-brained role as well as any nice person could. But people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...