Word: lauritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rafaelo Diaz Lauritz Melchoir...
...backs the opera at Covent Garden, presents Britain with its only season of truly "grand" opera.* Some two-thirds of the Syndicate's singers are well known to U. S. audiences for they come from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York?Maria Jeritza, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Laubenthal and many another...
...young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
...that little had been accomplished for the cause of the U. S. singer by the widely heralded debuts of Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times: "Undoubtedly the most valuable addition to the ranks of the Metropolitan in the past season was Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor...
Unheralded by front-page stories, Lauritz Melchior, Danish baritone turned tenor, made his U. S. début last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, as Tannhäuser in the first of six Wagner matinées. His performance was not flawless. He was not always faithful to pitch. His high tones, many of them, revealed all too plainly his baritone past. But on the whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took...