Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bayreuth, sang small roles the first summer, Sieglinde the next. On the strength of her Bayreuth appearances, Gatti-Casazza and Conductor Artur Bodanzky asked her to come to St. Moritz and sing for them there. The room was small, her voice muffled by heavy hangings. But a new Wagnerian was badly needed and she was given a contract. When Conductor Bodanzky queried her about her acting, she answered modestly: "I don't do very much...
...church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself, rich furs and jewels, a private car which she named ''Brünnhilde...
...seem great. There were people in last week's audience who remembered Milka Ternina, dramatically exciting but plain to look at. Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar were rivals for the role. Fremstad, at heart a Wagnerian, played it like a lioness. Farrar's conception was small, a little petulant. After Maria Jeritza's first breath- taking performance in 1921 the part was hers for the ten years she was at the Metropolitan. Upon her leaving, the opera was dropped from the repertoire until last...
...annual Pension Fund Concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is to be presented on Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Symphony Hall. The program contains familiar Wagnerian excerpts including the overture to the opera "Tannhauser." In addition, Feodor Chaliapin, noted Russian basso, is to be heard with the orchestra in selections from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov" and from the opera "Prince Igor...
...Opera House has been announced for Monday, April 1. Wagner's "Die Walkure" is the opening presentation, and contains a remarkable cast. Lotte Lehmann is to sing the part of Sieglinde, a role in which she has become justly famous, and Kirsten Flagstad that of Brunhilde. Two other Wagnerian operas, "Lohengrin" and "Die Meistersinger," are to be given on Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before Boston audiences during the last season...