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...House has been announced for Monday, April 1. Wagner's "Die Walkure" is the opening presentation, and contains a remarkable cast. Lotte Lehmann is to sing the part of Sieglinde, a role in which she has become justly famous, and Kirsten Flagstad that of Brunhilde. Two other Wagnerian operas, "Lohengrin" and "Die Meistersinger," are to be given on Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before Boston audiences during the last season...
...where she sang over the radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, a great and subtle role of which Lotte Lehmann has proved herself the greatest interpreter...
...neither ambition was he greatly successful. Weimar heard Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser and Lohengrin but the last was the only one which Liszt presented for the first time. He perfected and published the best of his own music. For a time Weimar was the musical centre of Europe but its brilliance gradually began to dim. In December 1858, Liszt heard what were probably the first hisses of his career. He resigned immediately...
...Before Nazidom gagged the Fatherland's jokesmiths they used to hammer out an anecdote in which Adolf Hitler, dozing at the opera, woke up to mistake a fat, gorgeously dressed Lohengrin for Göring and shouted at him: "No, Hermann! That's going...
Wednesday Evening, May 16 *"Lohengrin," Introduction to Act III Wagner *"Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss Schumann *Traumerei "Maximilian Robespierre," Overture Litolff *"Nell Gwyn," Suite German *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"The Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi") Thomas Hans Wiener and his Dance Group "The Street Dancers" ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" ("Night in Venice," Overture) Strauss...