Word: lohengrinned
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...never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen...
Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal, fixed up his castles with Wagnerian stage settings, helped finance Bayreuth when Wagner wanted a theatre of his own. Last week Dictator Hitler also took Bayreuth under his wing, had the German Government grant it an annual subsidy of 100,000 marks...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...program for the first recital follows: Bach, Prelude in G. Major; Brahms, Choral Prelude. "A Rose breaks forth;" Wagner, Zug zum Munster ("Lohengrin"); Wider. Andante Cantable (Forth Symphony); Guilmant, Minuet (Forth Sonata...
...formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made by a peahen named Madame Blanche who emitted a shrill Nya-a-a-a each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly...