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...great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...
...first sweet and small, but by 1935, when she made her debut at the Met as Sieglinde in Die Walküre, it had grown into immense power and clarity, perfectly even throughout its great range. She had grown with it, and when, as Isolde, she embraced Lauritz Melchior's Tristan, 400 pounds of lovebird sang from the stage. But together they were 400 pounds of genius, too, and after them Wagner could never again be the same...
...would seem ideal for Wagner, but Vickers is in no hurry to become a Heldentenor. "I love Wagner," says he, "but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten. German exploits the voice." Many of his colleagues apparently share his feeling: no truly great Heldentenor has appeared since Melchior retired (although the Hungarian Sandor Konya shows high promise...
...Lauritz Melchior 50th Anniversary (Asco, 2 LPs). This handsome salute to the great Heldentenor introduces him in the days (1913-18) when he was singing in opera and recital as a baritone, and carries him to his 1960 recording of Esultate from Otello. Even as a baritone-and even through the sizzle of old shellac-his voice had the tenoresque freshness, vigor and ringing power that later carried him trii umphantly through 24 years at the Met and 223 Tristans. Among the album's treasures: a 1924 scene from Siegfried ("Nothung! Not hung! Schmiede mein Hammer"), and the Bridal...
Only in TIME can one get the best in reporting, such as Mr. Lauritz Melchior's wonderful idea about our younger generation missing out by not being exposed enough to the nicer things in life [March 7]. How about Mr. Melchior as our first Minister of the Fine Arts...