Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...
...mysteries of the Metropolitan Opera Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
...principals. Auditor Francis Hurley and Superintendent Gill, of the fact that they have been arguing to an empty court. Massachusetts law specifies only that the superintendents of state prisons are removable "at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Correction," who is an appointee of the governor. The tenor of Mr. Hurley's investigation, which was authorized by the governor to extend not only to the Norfolk accounts but to the whole of the state penal structure, is such that Commissioner Dillon is obviously disqualified from passing judgment on its findings. This leaves the decision in Governor Ely's hands...
...Pecora: What was the general tenor of those discussions...
...orchestra goes as wild as Salome, exults with her, subsides to an eery dissonance while she sings to the head. It was then that Soprano Ljungberg came nearest to realizing the music's grim intensity. She crouched on the floor, reproached the thing gently, sang to it ecstatically. Tenor Max Lorenz was a picture-book Herod instead of the crazy neurasthenic that Wilde and Strauss intended. Dorothee Manski (Herodias) had to pinchhit for Karin Branzell who was taken with gallstones (see col. i). Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly. Tenor Hans Clemens (the Syrian...