Word: traubel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Siegfried, with Helen Traubel and Set Svanholm...
Four Star Revue (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante and Helen Traubel...
...assemble two complete, topflight Casts for almost any of its performances. No other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tristan und Isolde, with Traubel and Vinay...
Timeless Buffoon Durante had a superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...