Word: svanholm
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...from Munich to become general music director of the Frankfurt Opera. He had nine good years there (44 new productions), but in terms of his international career, it was records that brought him prominence. His 1957 recording of Wagner's Die Walküre with Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm and the Vienna Philharmonic, was so successful that it prompted English Decca (London Records in the U.S.) to engage him to embark upon the complete Ring cycle, a prodigious undertaking that was not completed until...
...voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...
...taxing part. When Melchior left the Metropolitan's stage in 1949, there was no Heldentenor to replace him. By that time, Set Svanhom, his beautiful voice always a bit too lyric for the heaviest Wagnerian tenor roles such as Tristan and Parsifal, was also to retire. After Svanholm's few remaining years with the company, no one could be found on either side of the Atlantic who could make a reasonable claim to the place in the roster vacated by him. Revivals of Wagner haven't been stopped because of this shortage of dramatic tenors, but all of them have...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1 p.m., ABC). Parsifal, with Schoeffler, Edelmann, Svanholm...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2pm ABC). Tristan and Isolde, with Harshaw, Theborn, Svanholm, Hines...