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...Canary-voiced Patrice Munsel stands in the same relation to a first-rank coloratura that a promising West Point cadet does to General Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...your article about Miliza Korjus (TIME, Oct. 30) you made the statement that first-rank coloratura sopranos seldom appear oftener than once in a generation. You made no mention of Patrice Munsel, or does she come in the next generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business) was a sellout. Many foreign singers would continue to be missed. Only new singer to raise a ripple of anticipation was the 18-year-old coloratura Patrice Munsel (TIME, Nov. 22), scheduled for a debut in Mignon. The Met's brightest stars this year, as last, were its conductors. The first week included an exquisitely polished Tristan (Sir Thomas Beecham), a brilliant Rosenkavalier (George Szell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Nose and the Thumb | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $120,000 Voice | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Patrice Munsel has a contract to sing this winter with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (she won the Met Auditions of the Air last spring). But after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $120,000 Voice | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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