Word: melchior
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...convention stayed away. But Seattle's Civic Auditorium was packed anyway, and for three nights. The San Francisco Opera had come to town, with three productions (Manon, Tannhauser, Rigoletto), a cast of 241, including an orchestra and such big-time singers as Grace Moore, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Bidu Sayao...
...need is more imperative economically than artistically. Chief mainstay of the box office for the past six years have been Soprano Flagstad and gusty, barrel-built Danish Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. Almost always the pair sold out the house with their hefty love-making in Tristan and Isolde, their caroling and ho-yo-to-ho-ing in the Ring operas. Ordinarily there would be on the Met's Wagnerian bench two sopranos who could take Flagstad's place as Melchior's teammate. But last week it appeared that neither of these would be fully available...
...during World War I, the public developed an antipathy to German music. Although Richard Wagner is the great Nazi musical and ideological hero, a survey in Variety last week showed that there is no U.S. reaction whatever against German music. Even Canada can take it. Variety reported that Tenor Melchior, in deference to supposed Canadian tastes, lately omitted German numbers from a recital in Montreal. His audience shouted for German encores, got them...
...filling Marguerite Bay. The ships put into Melchior Harbor, 200 miles away, waited a month. Supplies dwindled. The 26 at East Base radioed that their meat was gone, they were eating penguin eggs. The Bear slogged through the ice to a point 112 miles from the base. The weather grew worse; the men had to be taken off at once or they would be locked in for another winter...
...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...