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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Season-ticket subscribers, who buy their season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
...dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will be done for the first time with screen projections, an economy trick borrowed from the New York City Opera Co. Most of the glamorous old stars-Pinza, Pons, Traubel, Melchior-are back, and 14 new singers, six of them homegrown...
...brought it back. Levy had his boys write 35 versions of the lyrics before he finally settled on one written by John (Heartaches') Klenner. He named it Summer Moon. Stravinsky changed only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta try to establish a song as a 'standard' like White Christmas...