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...Opera office around noon one day last week was a little upsetting: Soprano Polyna Stoska was ill, would not be able to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure that night. Even though she had not sung it for four years, and never at the Met, blonde Regina Resnik was told that she would have to come down from her rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able...
Almost as big a surprise was 27-year-old Bronx-born opera-saver Regina Resnik (TIME, Aug. 25, 1947), whose dramatically convincing and vocally sumptuous Sieglinde was more than a match for 59-year-old veteran Tenor Lauritz Melchior's Siegmund...
Conductor Zipper had drilled his 86 musicians and some borrowed singers (including the Metropolitan's Regina Resnik) in part I of the fourth act of Verdi's Don Carlos, which had not been performed in New York for 26 years...
...Peter Grimes, Composer Britten was all over the stage, his enthusiasm overcoming his shyness, begging his singers to act their parts instead of grimacing and posturing. There were few in the Met's cast who didn't realize what they were up against. Soprano Regina Resnik is a Britten veteran: she had sung in his Rape of Lucretia in Chicago last year (TIME, June 9). But Tenor Frederick Jagel, who sings the leading role, was worried: "This is so tough dramatically that it becomes tough musically. If I don't watch my step, I end up with...
Soprano Regina Resnik sang the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Met while a detective watched from the wings. Nothing happened. The 25-year-old blonde had had anonymous threats from a woman she thought must be mad, since the threatener doubted Regina's ability to do justice to the role...