Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...
...tired scenery, oopsy ballet, timid stagecraft, ruthless mugging of the Met may have irritated operagoers more often than not. But the end of the season brought gloom last week to one of its fans: burly, weather-beaten Joseph Bartnik, traffic cop at the corner. A onetime burlesque-house tenor, Patrolman Bartnik likes to drop in on rehearsals, has had many a pass for Met performances...
Selections from Six Wagnerian Operas (Lauritz Melchior, tenor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, the Victor Symphony and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur; Victor: 10 sides; $5.50). In fine fettle, so well in the groove that you can almost see him bounding Wagneriously, Tenor Melchior gives voice to airs from Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger, Flying Dutchman, Siegfried. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joins him in the opening duet from Die Göiterdämmerung...
...glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...
Seeking Divorce. Morton Downey, 39, rotund radio tenor; from Barbara Bennett Downey, 34, second of the cinemadoll Bennett sisters; after twelve years' marriage; charging cruelty; in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Downey, while declining to contest the suit, intended to fight if necessary for custody of their five children...