Word: pogner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operatic road company from Germany visited the U. S. The German Opera's productions were not up to top Metropolitan standards, but some of its singers were-particularly a stocky Russian bass named Alexander Kipnis. Kipnis made such a hit singing Pogner in a Manhattan performance of Wagner's Meistersinger that U. S. critics immediately hailed him as one of the greatest basses of his time...