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...German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
...Wagner's foaming music. But the cavorting it accompanied would have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica...
Request Programme (Repeated) *"Pomp and Circumstance," March Elgar *"Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltzes Strauss *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Second Hungarlan Rhapsody Liszt *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *Bolero Ravel *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Soloist: JESUS MARIA SANROMA *The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Encores: *Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin Wagner "Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade "Hora Staccato" Dinicu-Heifotz *The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov...
...conductor: wiry U. S.-born Edwin McArthur, long familiar as accompanist to Kirsten Flagstad, who made his much-talked-about debut last week conducting a performance of Lohengrin in which Soprano Flagstad sang...
...aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead in his own private train...