Last week, Siegfried was performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Wagner lovers, packed like olives, heard the great score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods.
Tenor Taucher has, it is true, never been the favorite of Metropolitan goers. His acting has been characterized as rococo, his singing as pompous. Yet, in last...
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