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...were still more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this year Hungarian Fritz Reiner, who proved himself top-notch at opera in the Philadelphia series two win ters ago and again last spring at London...
...many a season. The strings were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from Chicago. Heroine of the evening, a newcomer from the Paris Opera, was Marjorie Lawrence. Australian-born soprano, who donned feathers and breastplate...
...Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...German company had singers who were either worn out or third-rate. The scenery was shoddy, the orchestra ragged. For its first home-grown Ring, the San Francisco Opera is spending $80,000, importing such peerless Wagnerians as Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Some $40,000 has been invested in scenery alone. There is a horrible, life-like dragon and a special new cloud machine which projects photographs of actual clouds on the backdrop...
...Cleveland Orchestra began a real opera season last week with Wagner's Die Walkure, cast with such expert singers as Soprano Dorothee Manski. Tenor Paul Althouse, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Cleveland has five other operas scheduled. Chiefly important is Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Philadelphia is also trying its hand at the Shostakovich opera under Conductor Fritz Reiner...