Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself on a young man who ran away with his mistress by murdering the boy's uncle and a cousin. On the grounds that he robbed the rich, Spada was popular with the poor. Ambitious young Corsicans without a trade rallied to him. After a visit to Corsica, Singer Mary Garden "loved him so much I named my dog after...
...Singer Grace Moore (One Night of Love), for "raising the standard of cinema entertainment," went the Society of Arts & Sciences' annual Fellowship gold medal...
...Ring of the Nibelung, no one character caused him greater anguish than his heroine Brünnhilde. Time & again he flung down his pen and paced the floor. He recalled in his autobiography that once "my courage failed me completely, for I could not help asking myself whether the singer had yet been born who was capable of vitalizing this heroic female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan last week when it was sung for the first time...
What Lehmann accomplished with the rôle has long been legendary. She sang it in the first Götterdämmerung given in the U. S. in 1888 and therein set a standard which no other singer has ever quite achieved. Vocally she was a match for Wagner's mighty orchestra. Dramatically she was the "heroic female figure" that Wagner imagined. Those who heard her have never forgotten the horror in her voice when she turned on Siegfried, the fury she became when she swore the piercing oath on the spear...
...best, was called Outdoor Stage, Robinson, France and showed, in the yellow glow of footlights under the night sky, an attractive concert singer in a bustle...