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Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
...MELCHIOR LENGYEL...
Like all true Heldentenore (the Met's only first-rate example in years has been Lauritz Melchior), Darcy combines the lusty, ringing power of a baritone with a tenor's high range. When Darcy stepped into Melchior's place to sing Parsifal, he got a critical ovation...
Darcy is a home-grown product-from Chicago by way of Minneapolis. Massive, 35-year-old descendant of midwestern Norwegians, he got all his vocal training in the U.S., most of his ideas about Parsifal by watching Melchior night after night. At the age of 21 Darcy left home in Minneapolis to study singing, married his Chicago teacher, Mme. Lucie Lenox. After a few years in midwestern vaudeville, singing things like Wagon Wheels complete with cart effect, he tried out as a baritone but failed to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. A year later (in 1940) he tried...
...past four years he has sung many minor roles at the Met. His big chance came last week when Lauritz Melchior was busy earning about three times his usual $880 Parsifal fee by taking a turn on Frank Sinatra's radio program. It was the first performance of Parsifal Melchior had missed in four years. Critics agreed that it would undoubtedly not be the last...