Word: moedl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Siegfried, with Moedl, Madeira...
...Dragons. All that the Ring has lacked at the Met, according to Wagner fans, has been heroic-voiced singers to fill its gargantuan roles. But the present Ring succeeded with sporadically fine singing and occasional bursts of orchestral brilliance. For the occasion, Bing imported Bayreuth's Martha Moedl (as Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (as Siegmund and Siegfried), and Marianne Schech of the Munich Staatsoper (as Sieglinde and Gutrune). All three gave occasionally fine performances, but no one of them dominated the stage in the spacious manner of a Kirsten Flagstad, a Helen Traubel or a Lauritz Melchior...
...listening to Fidelia through loudspeakers. Inside, the work's gloomy sets and stern plot seemed hardly a match for the festive occasion, but the audience cheered the triumphant aptness of its subject: freedom. Of the stars, Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler as Don Pizarro was a standout; Soprano Martha Moedl as Leonore was more effective dramatically than vocally. The orchestra, conducted by Opera Director Karl Böhm, won six salvos of applause after it played the famous Leonore Overture...
Married. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, 39, nightclubbing tin-plate heir; and brunette Mona Mae Moedl, 24, Sun Valley skating instructor; he for the fifth time (No. 4: Cinemactress Lana Turner) she for the second; in Salt Lake City...
...singers who had not come up through the German chain of promotion (from provincial opera houses to major cities to Bayreuth). Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, familiar at the Metropolitan Opera but a stranger to Germany, looked handsome and heroic and sang brilliantly as Tristan. German Soprano Martha Moedl, 37, had begun to sing only eight years ago, but was a warm, natural Isolde. The Brangaene was a Ukrainian contralto named Era Malaniuk. Whatever the critics thought of the sets. they seemed to agree that the new Tristan was a fine musical success...