Word: melchior
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Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...
Other shifts: Jean de Reszke & Lauritz Melchior, from baritone to tenor. Dramatic Soprano Lilli Lehmann, like Galli-Curci, began as a coloratura...
...Names. The local backlog became stronger with the foundation of a ballet school with able Adolph Bolm, oldtime Diaghilev dancer, in charge. Last year, spending some $40,000 on scenery alone, the San Francisco Opera produced Wagner's Ring cycle, headed the casts with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior, the two great Wagnerians from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...from advance ticket sales had been taken in at the box office. Prices had been boosted to $6.60 top. Even so, there were still more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this year Hungarian Fritz...
Inspired by its success with the Wagner Ring cycle last year (TIME, Nov. 4), the San Francisco Opera Association made plans months ago to repeat it next season, again engaged Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner...