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...most pretentious annual event of London's musical life: the opening of the spring opera season (seven weeks) at Covent Garden. As in past seasons, the roster of singers included several names familiar to audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan, among them Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior. Season's repertory, as at the Metropolitan, showed a distinct accent on German opera, with two complete cycles of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen as its main feature. Whipping performances into shape were a staff of internationally famed conductors, including Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler, Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Covent Garden | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...opera was, in fact, going on-Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, best-seller of recent Metropolitan seasons, its cast headed in familiar top-notch style by Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad. Evident from the first drop of Mr. Bodanzky's baton was a greatly improved orchestra. Not so evident, but present nevertheless, was a brand new stage floor capable of supporting even a Wagnerian soprano without creaking. Last season's major Wagnerian discovery, svelte Swedish Kerstin Thorborg, again drew critical superlatives for her performance as the vacillating Brangane. Youthful American Julius Huehn again donned whiskers, impersonated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John Brownlee. The Coronation season was to last eleven weeks instead of the usual six. Yet in London last week curtains dropped on an opera season which, promising to be the best in years, had turned out to be the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coronation Comedown | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Covent Garden is grateful to Sir Thomas, for managing what should be its most successful opera season. For the first time in their history the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique will assist there. Metropolitan participants alone include Kirsten Flagstad. Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg. Lauritz Melchior and John Brownlee as well as Tibbett and Martinelli. Sir Thomas once lost ?1,000,000 of his own in opera. Aloof, disdainful, he ignores summonses and hotel bills, brings audiences to their feet when he leads the London Philharmonic, estranges them when he calls Britons the most unmusical people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coronation Opera | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...justly proved such a sensation, will sing the role of Isolde--a part no less grueling than that of Brunhilde in the Ring which she is also to sing here in Boston. The role of Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull part. Few tenors have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

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