Word: wagnerian
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Died. Lilli Lehmann, 80, famed Wagnerian singer; in Berlin...
...shadow fell over Bayreuth last week. From Berlin came news that she who had learned the music-drama gospel from the lips of the master, she who had created Isolde in America, she who had been called the greatest of Wagnerian singers, was gone. Lilli Lehmann was dead...
...Baudelaire, the tormented Catholic Satanist, sometimes achieved in poetry grandeur that: was Wagnerian. In French literature his niche will eventually be tha of his kinspirit Poe in English. Once Baudelaire wrote "Yesterday I felt the wing of imbecility brush me." It was also perhaps the tip of the wing of greatness...
...Berlin Lilli Lehmann, famed Wagnerian soprano, celebrated her Both birthday. Special gift was the title of "professor" sent her by President Michael Hainisch of Austria for her many great performances at the Vienna Imperial Opera, for her more recent services to the annual Salzburg festivals...
...only operatic appearances in the U. S. were in Detroit, Albany and New London where she sang incognito with the Wagnerian Opera Company (financed by her and now extinct) in late...