Word: melchior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Lauritz Melchior announced with a Heldentenor's roar that he would put on opera if the Met wouldn't. Said he: "It's a scandal, a disaster. The eyes of the world are turned to America and the greatest country in the world cannot even have an opera house! It looks as if we're only interested in jazz and crooning and all the semi-things...
...Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
Opera's Lauritz Melchior, in Berlin on a song tour, asked the Russians please to give him back the antique silver he had stored there during the war. (The Russians, said he, had taken it over from the Danish consul.) Tenor Melchior seemed to be out 200 pounds of silver. "The Russians," he reported presently, "pulled our noses...
Among the actors, Robert Cipes, Fritz Lamont, and Jeanne Melchior, are the most believable, probably in part because their comparatively minor roles are comparatively devoid of pronunciamentos. That most of the others are talented was evident last night at scattered intervals. The Dramatic Club should take more care not to submerge such abilities, as well as those of John Holabird and Emory Niles, who respectively accomplished the reasonably attractive sets and lighting, under such an unfortunately, chosen play as "The Survivors...
Secretary of State Marshall (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC), speaking for the Red Cross campaign, followed immediately by the Metropolitan Opera production of Tannhauser, with Melchior and Traubel...