Word: traubel
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...staging opera in English translations. "That is all right for the lesser companies, but the Met should present opera in its greatest form, and that is in the original languages. Besides, you can't understand the words, even if they are sung in English." Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, just finished a two-week engagement in a Chicago nightclub, made public a letter she had received from Bing, and thoughtfully appended her answer. Bing had written that opera and popular singing "do not really seem to mix very well" and suggested: "Perhaps you would prefer to give the Metropolitan...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, rising to the bait of $7,500, warmed up for a week's work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante, with Helen Traubel and Rose Marie...
...orchestra could build to a battering climax and-often a lot more difficult-hush to a whispering pianissimo. The program was conventional, except for one of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos' torrid Bachianas Brasileiras. But the playing was of the caliber that makes such big-name performers as Helen Traubel, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein, recent soloists with the Florida, glad to return for more...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tristan and Isolde, with Traubel, Svanholm...