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Der Fliegende Holl?nder
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, November 22, 1950
Der Fliegende Holl?nder (48)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
- Dutchman
- Paul Sch?ffler
- Senta
- Margaret Harshaw
- Erik
- Set Svanholm
- Daland
- Sven Nilsson
- Mary
- Hertha Glaz
- Steersman
- Thomas Hayward
- Conductor
- Fritz Reiner
Review 1:
Review of James Hinton Jr. in Musical America
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Miss Harshaw had until this performance appeared as a mezzo-soprano, and had sung such roles as Amneris, Azucena, Erda, and Waltraute-as well as Mary in earlier performances of this opera-at the Metropolitan. Toward the close of last season, while continuing her mezzo-soprano career at the opera house, she began to make outlying appearances singing Wagnerian soprano excerpts with symphony orchestras. This, however, was her first appearance as a soprano in New York.
Other singers have changed their classifications, with varying degrees of success, but few have had as good a vocal prognosis as Miss Harshaw for their new career. Her middle voice has always been full-bodied enough to make her singing of mezzo-soprano music effective, but the production of her upper voice has seemed very much like that of a soprano-clear and firm, without much carrying up of chest resonance in the interest of dramatic force.
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