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Iceland Cometh. The value of Iceland's krona has melted a bit. But if you have any cash left, there's a special being offered by IcelandAir. A round-trip ticket from Boston or New York to Reykjavik (a four-hour flight), plus three nights at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Scandinanivan breakfast buffet included, costs $549. Book by Oct. 21 for travel through November...
Their voices float eerily across more than eight decades, ghostly echoes of a fabled operatic golden age: Nellie Melba, Emma Calvé, Jean de Reszke, Lillian Nordica and others, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera by an enterprising music lover armed with an Edison cylinder machine. The sound is strictly low-fi, the scratchy surface noise is sometimes overwhelming, and the tantalizing fragments often break off abruptly with a singer in mid-phrase. But listening to them is thrilling, like hearing Lincoln recite the Gettysburg Address...
...with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calvé, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here, in his only extant recording, is the Polish tenor De Reszke; the legendary voice is frustratingly obscured, but his Wagner and Meyerbeer heroes glow with virile grace...
...Mapleson Cylinders (Distributed by Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1985). Calve sings! And so do Nordica, Sembrich and De Reszke on these treasures from the Met, recorded on wax cylinders by the company's librarian between...
Despite a spectacular increase in preseason interest, the graduation of last years co-captain Kathy Angel and pending graduation of co-captain Debbie McLane has left the squad with a vacuum in the top positions. Temple Mountain ace Lillian Nordica has raced professionally and is not eligible for college competition. Coach Barbara Grant hopes that depth and improvements in the ranks will make up for the lack of a star...