Word: kullmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably never had a better singing cast performed it: the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Charles Kullmann and Soprano Hilda Burke in the leads, Contralto Anna Kaskas as the housekeeper, cadaverous Singer-Actor Richard Hale as broken hearted Jester Jack Point...
...more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this year Hungarian Fritz Reiner, who proved himself top-notch at opera in the Philadelphia series two win ters ago and again last spring at London...
Next night two special trains brought 1,400 New Havenites down from Connecticut to hear Tenor Charles Kullmann make his début as Faust. Some members of the delegation remembered him when he was a boy soprano singing for 5? a Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Others first knew him as the husky young member of the Class of 1924 who soloed with the Yale Glee Club. All were aware of the name he had made for himself in Berlin, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. Nor did his old friends seem...
...young Helen Oelheim, another débutante who did all she could with the absurd role of Siebel, for which she had to dress as a boy, flutter about picking flowers. Back-slapping scene of the week took place in the Grand Central station late that night when Tenor Kullmann rushed through the "Charles Kullmann" specials, shaking hands with his townsfolk to whom he was just plain Charlie...