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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Soprano Eleanor Steber...
...Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia). A majestic reading whose importance is somewhat dimmed by the fact that it is the 15th LP of this famed work. Columbia's reason: Walter's 77th anniversary year. Other Walter anniversary recordings: Mozart Arias (2 LPs), sung by Eleanor Steber and George London...
...Metropolitan Opera stars were the center of attention in the opening-night Lohengrin. The part of Elsa was splendidly sung by Eleanor Steber, in her first German-language appearance in Germany; Astrid Varnay turned in a solid performance as Ortrud. Some critics said it was the best Lohengrin they could remember. Two 'other Met stars scored in the Parsifal: George London as Amfortas and Chile's Ramon Vinay as a slightly Latinate Parsifal...
...Steber's test came in a concert-version revival of Richard Strauss's fairy-tale opera, Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), and in a soprano role which Vienna's beloved Maria Jeritza introduced to the Viennese in 1919. The story: an emperor on a hunt sees a white gazelle, and when he throws his spear at her, she turns into a woman. The emperor takes her home and makes her his wife. But the new empress does not cast a shadow, and, uneasily, the emperor realizes that his bewitching wife is not really...
...first performance: "America can be proud to have such a singer." Last week, after a repeat performance, the Vienna State Opera announced that the soprano from Wheeling* had been invited to sing in Vienna next year just as much as her Metropolitan Opera schedule will allow. Said Eleanor Steber: "That I was accepted singing Strauss in Vienna is so thrilling that I still find it hard to believe...