Word: siegmunds
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...Sunday when Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List's troops rolled into Greece and Yugoslavia, Berliners spent a normal wartime Sabbath. They strolled the streets, attended the cinema, watched Germany defeat Hungary at soccer, went to the races at Karlshorst. They bought extras, read the headlines, glanced at the official Nazi pronouncements, threw the papers away...
...tank cars and uniformed war correspondents followed the mechanized fighting forces. In both Bulgaria and Rumania air bases were being multiplied, often with conscripted Jewish labor. Bulgaria's surgeons, doctors and druggists were mobilized for medical service. In command of the Nazis' Balkan operation was Field Marshal Siegmund List, veteran of the invasion of Poland...
...leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...
...Wagner saw to it that their tones should ring with desperate effort. Prince of Heldentenors is Lauritz Melchior. His triple-brass larynx (which earns him the same top Metropolitan pay that Flagstad gets: $1,000 a performance) can stand the wear & tear of Siegfried's "Forge Song" and Siegmund's stentorian "Wälse Wälse" without straining a capillary. But what impresses Wagnerites is his ability to color Wagner's mystical, mountain-glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes...