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Night after the Germans pounced on Scandinavia last week, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Swedish Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior and German Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium...
...team of husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
Last week, singing Sieglinde opposite such champions as Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel made her official Metropolitan debut. Manhattan's debutasters trooped in droves to hear her, stayed to cheer, for they heard one of the finest heavyweight Wagnerian soprano voices to turn up at the Metropolitan since Kirsten Flagstad's debut...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) opens its eighth successive radio season with its revival of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Soprano Irene Jessner in the title roles...