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...Melchior's Moola...
Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who gets well paid for opening his mouth very wide, keeps a careful record of the occasions on which he opens his mouth. By consulting his notebook, the great Dane can point to 209 Tristans, 171 Walküres, 143 Tannhäusers, 125 Siegfrieds, 101 Götterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner...
...probably the only person who has bothered to count how many words (6,984) there are in the role of Siegfried. This week the Met, which has also been keeping track, more roughly, of Lauritz Melchior, put on a show to mark his 20th anniversary at the Metropolitan. In a special Sunday night performance, Melchior sang the most ambitious program of his career-one act each from three Wagnerian operas. Four sopranos alternated in singing with him. The demonstration proved, to the satisfaction of all present, that Melchior is not only the most durable but also the greatest of Wagnerians...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
...Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...