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 ...

THE Lyric Opera Company, which began a Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre last week, is a disarmingly agreeable and vivacious troupe of young people whose doings ...

“At last opera has found a new golden voice,”‘ reads the Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen ...

Helen Francesca Traubel (June 16, 1899 – July 28, 1972) was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and ...

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.