Word: lauritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior...
Wagner: Die Walkure, Act 2 (Berlin State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Bruno Seidler-Winkler and Bruno Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile...
Schumann: Duets (Lotte Lehmann soprano, Lauritz Melchior, tenor with orchestra; Victor, 4 sides). Top-notch singing of first-class Schwärmerei. One duet, a charming Germanization of Robert Burns's Wha Is That at My Bower Door?, would bring down any house...
...permanent St. Louis Opera Association, signed up first-magnitude stars, scheduled a short season in the spring, another for fall. Last week, with an advance sale of 18,000 seats, St. Louis' brand-new opera opened its first season with a performance of Die Walküre (starring Lauritz Melchior and Marjorie Lawrence). Said the new company's manager, James E. Darst: "Grand opera cannot fail if St. Louis is really a big league town. And we're betting that...
Mechanical cost of each of the four Ring productions is about $2,500. As yet no machinery or stage effect has been devised to make paunchy Tenor Lauritz Melchior or big-womanly Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and the likes of them, resemble the boyish Siegfried, the maidenly Briinnhilde...