Word: kullman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success. Thursday evening was no exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera, but you couldn't always hear him. And Rose Bampton's Donna Anna, a difficult role to be sure, was still a disappointment...
...brief shore leave, Miss de Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel with whips. Miss Arden and ship's Captain Brian Donlevy look on as if they could think of far better things...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...