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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...