Word: tannh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd's shoulders as he tightly clasped the typewritten sheets of his memorandum in one arm and a bouquet of red roses in the other. Slowly the crowd began to melt back into the ruins from which it had come. Loudspeakers blared Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser...
Wagner's heavy oil is what makes the wheels of the Met go round. Of the Met's eight most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home...
...sure, she was in no hurry. When she was 23, in the summer of 1926, Rudolph Ganz, the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, took her to New York's Lewisohn Stadium for a guest appearance. That was the year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley, an 18-year-old Kansas City soprano, sang Gilda in Rigoletto, to the clicking of telegraph keys and the onrush...
Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who gets well paid for opening his mouth very wide, keeps a careful record of the occasions on which he opens his mouth. By consulting his notebook, the great Dane can point to 209 Tristans, 171 Walküres, 143 Tannhäusers, 125 Siegfrieds, 101 Götterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner...
...bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into an aria from Tannhäuser...