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...Tristan the Hero, wounded by Traitor Melot's sword thrust, was dying one night last week on the stage of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, Germany. As Kurvenal, his faithful manservant, stood by him, Tristan sang feverishly, sometimes shouting, sometimes sinking into exhausted murmurs. Patiently the audience attended his efforts. But a larger audience, more excited, spread all over the world, listened to Tristan und Isolde through loudspeakers. It was a tradition-breaking radio broadcast: first one to come from Bayreuth. To insure its excellence, all other broadcasting in Germany had been hushed. The Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft sent...
Bayreuth. Wagner Festival, July 21-Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 21, Aug. i, Aug. 5, Aug. 8, Aug. 17 under Arturo Toscanini. Parsifal, also under Toscanini, will be given July 22, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Aug. 9, Aug. 19. Tristan und Isolde will be conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler July 23, Aug. 3, Aug. 18. The Ring under Karl Elmendorff will be given twice?July...
Died. William Gustafson, 43, U. S. born basso of the Metropolitan Opera Company (Sadko, Die Walkure, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde); by his own hand (revolver) after a quarrel with his wife over a milliner's bill; in Manhattan...
...limited to a few. Beginning in 1933 (there is no Festival in 1932), artistic director will be Impresario Heinz Tietjen of the Berlin State Theatre and Opera. Musical director will be Wilhelm Furtwängler, another onetime Philharmonic hero. Conductor Furtwängler, not Toscanini, will probably conduct Tristan und Isolde this summer...
...Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello, Forrest's Camille, The Bartered Bride, Lucia di Lammermoor...