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...little had been accomplished for the cause of the U. S. singer by the widely heralded debuts of Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times: "Undoubtedly the most valuable addition to the ranks of the Metropolitan in the past season was Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor...
...pity that others had not prepared as industriously and intelligently for their debuts as Mr. Melchior. If they had, there might be here a different story to tell of the debuts of Miss Lewis and Miss Talley?Miss Lewis whose voice is not under any circumstances an important one for an operatic career; Miss Talley, with a better vocal equipment, but needing greatly long periods of quiet, concentrated study to eliminate serious vocal difficulties and find herself as an artist. Both young women were given publicity beyond their merits. Both of them went on the Metropolitan stage pursued by reputations...
Unheralded by front-page stories, Lauritz Melchior, Danish baritone turned tenor, made his U. S. début last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, as Tannhäuser in the first of six Wagner matinées. His performance was not flawless. He was not always faithful to pitch. His high tones, many of them, revealed all too plainly his baritone past. But on the whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took...
...Lawitz Melchior, Danish tenor, six feet high. Once his voice was baritone, but like Jean de Reszke's, it grew higher-He will sing Wagnerian roles...
...16th revival of the Bayreuth festival, the second since the War, opened last week with Die Meistersinger. Parsifal followed, then the Ring. Wagnerites crowded the town to capacity, enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...