Word: taucher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...
...score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods...
...Tenor Taucher has, it is true, never been the favorite of Metropolitan goers. His acting has been characterized as rococo, his singing as pompous. Yet, in last week's performance, he was singing, acting, better than ever before. The great house warmed to him, he took many curtain calls. In the last act, there was a change of scene in which the stage, masked only by volutes of steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former...
...time for Wagner's soul-stirring prelude, and then marching out. They reappear for the great love-duet, and go out again. Finally they slink into their seats-just in time for the Liebestod. But let it here be said that this last performance, featuring Herr Curt Taucher as Tristan, Florence Easton as Isolde, and Arthur Bodanzky as conductor, was so good that it compelled many of the most inveterate "duckers" to listen to every note, from the first in the prelude toi the last in the Liebestod...
Siegfried was revived at the Metropolitan (Manhattan) and marked a further advance in the restoration of Wagner to American repertories. It was magnificently given and received. Curt Taucher sang Siegfried and Florence Easton, Brünnhilde...