When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling.
Newsmen who queried the Brünnhilde on her swimming achievements found her English uncertain. She claims to have swum the...
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