Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar, even to non-opera goers, is this Wagnerian character that the name Brünnhilde has passed into U. S. speech as depictive of any large beefy woman, usually with a big head of hair...
Gertrude Kappel who, older and more experienced than Flagstad, has been the Metropolitan's most dependable Wagnerian since...
...fashioned sleeve Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company drew a surprise one afternoon last week: a Wagnerian soprano who was neither fat nor 40 but a young woman of grace with a strong clear voice in its prime. The new singer was Kirsten Flagstad, a Norwegian who knows how to milk a cow and ski. As Sieglinde in Die Walkure she made the season's outstanding debut...
When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
...Tenor Lauritz Melchior and Berthold Neuer of Wm. Knabe & Co. to discover a native "heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced the contest: "Many of us look to America to produce the great Tristan or Parsifal of the future...