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...debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett was more imaginative as her hunchback father, used his strong baritone with an accuracy that seemed almost reproving...
When Rigoletto was repeated last week. Soprano Bovy proved that she could sing truly if not more evenly, but she still seemed pathetically unequal to Tibbett. A German opera saved the week from mediocrity, when Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years. Save for Hans Clemens, who sang the Steersman in the last production, all the principals were new to the Metropolitan in their parts. Flagstad took the role of Senta for the first time in her career and made it unforgettable. Warmest praise went to Baritone Friedrich...
...Orchestra played Wagner's Wedding March in swingtime. A chorus from New York's schools thundered the Soldiers' Chorus from Faust, climaxing it with a lunge towards the footlights and an unintentional Communist salute. Enthralled by Lucrezia Bori's excerpts from La Boheme and Baritone Tibbett's splendid singing, the huge party released itself in a loud Star-Spangled Banner, pressed backstage to admire a new $5,000 cyclorama...
Hitches arose with Pons, Ponselle, Tibbett. Witherspoon had thought they wanted too much money, could not come to terms with them. It took the Johnson tact to re-engage them. The new singers, many of whom Johnson inherited with his job, turned out to be another problem. Out of 19, only two achieved real success. Australian Soprano Marjorie Lawrence sang Brunnehilde dramatically, if unevenly, startled operagoers by mounting a horse in Gotterdammerung and galloping off stage as Wagner prescribed. Scrawny Swedish Gertrud Wettergren proved to be a siren as Amneris in Aida, a sensitive Brangane...
...there were still more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this year Hungarian Fritz Reiner, who proved himself top-notch at opera in the Philadelphia series two win ters ago and again last spring...