Opening night at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera is an established American ritual. Everybody understands that the cast furnishes half the show and the audience the rest, and that polite ones on either ...

At the Opera will begin with an artist profile of American dramatic soprano Helen Traubel, followed by the feature opera, Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four ...

Since the late great Lillian Nordica’s gaslit heyday (1890-1910) U.S. woman’s weight has dwindled. One result : a scarcity of great U.S. Wagnerian sopranos. Today few U.S. women singers have the beef ...

side 1: Marion [Marian] Anderson with Orchestra. A Prayer [track 1] Oh What a Beautiful City [track 2] Helen Traubel with Orchestra. The Rosary [track 3] Deep River [track 4]; side 2: The Charioteers.

First published in 1951, this slightly above average mystery from Traubel (1899–1972), the leading soprano at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in her day, opens onstage during a performance of Die ...

Craig Stevens repeats his TV role as detective Peter Gunn in this mixture of humor, violence and girls. Edie: Laura Devon. Jacoby: Edward Asner. Samantha: Sherry Jackson. Mother: Helen Traubel. Fusco: ...