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Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...
...knew referred to the Nazi attacks which Chancellor Adolf Hitler has condoned, if not instigated, against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned from Germany. And able Otto Klemperer was ousted from the Berlin State...
...back further than his. Marcella Sembrich, who sang at the Metropolitan 50 years ago, made a quavering little speech. Walter Damrosch, who conducted there 48 years ago, helped master ceremonies. Out of her seclusion came Olive Fremstad whose Wagnerian interpretations have not been approached until this winter when Frida Leider and Maria Olszewska joined the Metropolitan.† Together the oldtimers sat at a table in a night-club scene, watched Lucrezia Bori and Rosa Ponselle do lively impersonations of cigaret girls, after which tiny Lily Pons did an Apache dance with enormous Lauritz Melchior as her shrinking partner and Dancer...
Three new German singers have helped to make this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...