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March 21: "Lauritz Melchior;" the second in a series of three lectures on Scandinavian opera singers by Norm Hollingshead; 2: 15 p.m.; free
Kitsap Sun Stories 2010
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And then came the extra enchantment: a magnificent coloratura voice emerged from this petite five-footer, one that could hold its own with Lauritz Melchior, the renowned Wagnerian tenor.
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De Mille's silent film of "Carmen" - or they played opera singers, whether affable (the teddy-bear Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior) or regal (Wilhelmenia Fernandez in Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film "Diva").
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It sat on five acres at the top of Mulholland Drive, and formerly belonged to Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Maybe he'd be better remembered if, like the other great Wagnerian tenor of the period, the Danish-born Lauritz Melchior - surprisingly unmentioned in this documentary, he had shifted his career to England and the United States.
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But Lauritz Melchior wasn't going to be singing Tristan while swinging from the booms, and anyway, the big news of the season was the debut of a new soprano from Norway, one Kirsten Flagstad, singing in the highly irrelevant operas of Richard Wagner, which, of course, have nothing to teach us about the world, power, or nature.
Opera's Relevance and Korngold Lisa Hirsch 2007
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Or look at the career of another great tenor who was originally, mistakenly, though a baritone, one Lauritz Melchior.
Archive 2007-09-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007
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But Lauritz Melchior wasn't going to be singing Tristan while swinging from the booms, and anyway, the big news of the season was the debut of a new soprano from Norway, one Kirsten Flagstad, singing in the highly irrelevant operas of Richard Wagner, which, of course, have nothing to teach us about the world, power, or nature.
Archive 2007-09-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007
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In fact, the Met Siegfried broadcast of January 30, 1937 -- with Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, and Friedrich Schorr
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In fact, the Met Siegfried broadcast of January 30, 1937 -- with Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, and Friedrich Schorr
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