Word: melchior
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...held to determine which of the singing citizens of Nuremberg is most worthy of Eva, daughter of Pogner, rich goldsmith who heads the local guild of mastersingers. In Manhattan's Knabe Hall one afternoon last week 200 New Yorkers attended a similar contest sponsored by Tenor Lauritz Melchior and Berthold Neuer of Wm. Knabe & Co. to discover a native "heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced the contest: "Many...
...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...
Lily Pons drank from a nursing bottle, Rosa Ponselle rode a bicycle, big Lauritz Melchior, forgetting he was the world's greatest Wagnerian tenor, dressed up like Salome with painted toenails. Because the Metropolitan Opera Company is again desperately hard up it was giving its third Opera Surprise Party. New Yorkers paid $14,000 and laughed three hours to see the expensive singers without wigs or dignity...
...written a comical libretto called "A Half Century of Progress." Lily Pons was the Metropolitan in infancy. Ponselle's bicycle act was for the gay '90's. An important debut was remembered for 1906 and white-haired Geraldine Farrar bowed from the audience. Then Tenor Melchior appeared as the 1907 Salome, did the Dance of the Seven Veils to show why the Metropolitan's directors objected...
Tannhauser will be broadcast in full from the Metropolitan Opera House at 1.35 P.M. over WEAF and WJZ on Saturday afternoon with Lotte Lehmann, Melchior, and Schorr; Artur Bodansky conducting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the St. Cecilia Society and David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony...