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With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan's Week | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Flagstad exhibited a voice so clear and powerful, so even throughout its range, so flawless in its phrasing that most critics went ecstatic. Four days later came Tristan und Isolde and all hats were in the air. Flagstad could sing. Though she indulged in no pyrotechnics, she was quietly effective as she raised the cup, offered the love potion to Tristan. Again at the end she reached rare heights when, with her voice still fresh and sure, she kneeled beside Tristan's body and sang the demanding Liebestod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Era | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Thereafter whenever Flagstad sang, the house was crowded to the doors and Tristan und Isolde became the season's bestseller. Question on every side was where such a singer had been keeping herself. Answer was that for 20 years she had had an uneventful career in Norway, singing at the Oslo Opera house where her talent was taken for granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Era | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...first lecture of the series entitled "Das Biid des Menschen in Goethes Dichten und Denken", was held last Monday while the remaining two are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietor Will Give Two Series of Lectures on Art, Culture | 10/30/1935 | See Source »

Aside from a single Tristan und Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Salzburg | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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