Word: lohengrinned
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...true in its top notes, rich when it was low. More than most of her predecessors in the rôle, she made Wagner's heroine deeply human, truly suggested the varying moods, projected them forcefully. Three days later she again made a vivid impression singing Ortrud in Lohengrin...
...dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German, a language which was hard...
...Lohengrin opened the 15th season of opera in the Cincinnati Zoo, a six-week schedule assured this year by anonymous donations. As usual, the audience tittered at unexpected animal sounds-a loon calling as Lohengrin arrived on the stage with his papier-mache swan; a lion roaring just as King Henry dropped his chin for a deep bass note...
...name rarely appears on Metropolitan Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down...
...Lohengrin, Introduction to Act IIIWagner (Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *Pavane Ravel *Carmen, Suite Bizet Aragenaise--Intermezzo--Gypsy Dance *Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *Fifth Symphony in E minor, Andante Cantabile Techaikovsky *Espana, Rhapsody Chabrier *"Music in the Air," Selection Kern *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Strauss *"Only One Vienna," March Schrammel Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...