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...others have had. Somehow, the old seafaring legend failed to fit in with the stark, abstract staging technique that has been brilliantly successful with other Wagner operas. Musically, Bayreuth's Dutchman was superior. Listeners were especially pleased with the Metropolitan Opera's statuesque Soprano Astrid Varnay as Senta. Most popular opera of Bayreuth's season thus far: Tannhduser, with the role of Wolfram sensitively sung by Germany's young (30) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, a rising new baritone...
...singers did their best to make up for all that. For U.S.-trained Astrid Varnay, The Dutchman was a chance to prove again that she really belongs at the top, and opulent-voiced Soprano Varnay (as Senta) proved it. For German Baritone Hans Hotter, 41 (the Dutchman), it was a brilliant debut. A onetime choir director with a big, barreling but expressive voice, huge (6 ft. 4, 223 Ibs.), handsome Baritone Hotter filled the stage, both vocally and visually...
...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...
...counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German...
...saved the week from mediocrity, when Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years. Save for Hans Clemens, who sang the Steersman in the last production, all the principals were new to the Metropolitan in their parts. Flagstad took the role of Senta for the first time in her career and made it unforgettable. Warmest praise went to Baritone Friedrich...