Word: taucher
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...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...
...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...
...Taucher-Easton...
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...
...parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young monk (Mr. Taucher), who impersonates also Mona Lisa's youthful lover, whom she had been forced to discard to marry Francesco di Gioconda...