Word: contralto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
...Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband...
...Bath Club" with Contralto Barbara Maurel, Frank Ventrees' Orchestra and Society Reporter Margaret Santry sponsored by Corn Products Refining Co. (Linit). Every night except Saturday and Sunday...
...plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...
...soprano roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas are most effective when sung by small, arch, comely ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...