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...pounds." The production, unhampered by clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
Director Laszlo Halasz had heard Lyric Soprano Spence in a Broadway production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow. When Polyna Stoska, who last winter sang the role of the "composer" in Ariadne, was snapped up by the Metropolitan, Halasz sent for Wilma. He had been watching blonde Suzy Morris* almost as long. "I had already decided that she had the finest dramatic soprano voice in the entire country. She is a young Jeritza. Everybody told me I was taking my life in my hands to produce an opera with two singers who had never in their life sung...
...leaning on plot rather than people. And it finds time for enough that is human and humorous. Composer Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) scores with all his lighter songs and with some of his romantic ones. And there are good people to sing them-notably, opera singer Polyna Stoska, whose beautiful soprano voice is a treat for Broadway. What is more, most of the singers...
...were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around looking like the Statue of Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann, who darted through her coloratura notes with birdlike accuracy. The City Opera, which had planned only two performances of Ariadne, hastily scheduled more...
...Metropolitan operas, now devoting herself to Lieder as well as opera; Contralto Sigrid Onegin, whose voice is no longer at its peak. Oddly, a British singer, Marjorie Booth, gets much applause at the State Opera. So, at the Charlottenburg Opera, does an American, tall, blonde, 25-year-old Polyna Stoska...