Word: melchior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home to her quisling husband and semi-retirement in 1941, the Met's Wagnerian first team has been Melchior and Traubel...
...Sisters from Boston. A series of pleasant specialty acts, done up in Gay Nineties costume, by talented Troupers Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson (TIME, June...
Added to the primary ingredients in the current opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...
...Sisters from Boston. A series of pleasant specialty acts, done up in Gay Nineties costume, by talented Troupers Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson (TIME, June...
...Sisters from Boston. A series of pleasant specialty acts, done up in Gay Nineties costume, by talented Troupers Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson (TIME, June...