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	Lauritz Melchior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the young Melchior was a boy soprano and amateur singer, before starting his first operatic vocal studies at the age of 18 in 1908.
		Although Melchior sang at most of the theatres and concert halls of the Western world during his long career, he is best remembered as a member of the Metropolitan Opera company, where he sang 519 performances of his Wagnerian roles between 1926 and 1950.
		Some of Melchior's most notable colleagues in the opera houses of the world included the sopranos Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte Lehmann, Helen Traubel, Marjorie Lawrence, Elisabeth Rethberg, the baritone Lawrence Tibbett and the conductors Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fritz Reiner, Thomas Beecham, Arturo Toscanini, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, and Otto Klemperer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lauritz_Melchior (485 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lauritz Melchior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior (March 20, 1890 – March 18, 1973) was a Danish-American opera singer; one of the greatest Wagnerian tenors of the early 20th century.
		Melchior's Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1926 in the title role in Tannhäuser.
		Melchior retired from the opera stage in 1950, but continued to do radio, television and nightclub engagements.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lauritz-Melchior (2308 words)

	Danish Audio History: Lauritz Melchior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen on the 20th of March 1890.
		The young Lauritz was talented for singing and acting, and in 1908 he began voice training.
		In 1913 Melchior made his baritone debut at the Royal Danish Opera as Silvio in "I Pagliacci".
	www.statsbiblioteket.dk /dlh/melch_e/melchior.html (136 words)

	Lauritz Melchior Anthology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Melchior was the most famous Wagner tenor ever, and he was Danish and proud of it.
		The Danacord Lauritz Melchior Anthology is divided into the recordings Melchior did for the German company Polydor and Parlophone as well as his complete recordings for the British HMV.
		The essence of Melchior will be found in vols 3, 4 and 5 with the last mentioned also including the 70th Birthday Concert in Copenhagen where Melchior triumphantly sang Siegmund in a live concert version of the first act of Die Walküre.
	www.danacord.dk /collections/melchior.html (242 words)

	Allartist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen in 1890 (on the same day as Beniamino Gigli) and, having studied at the Royal Opera School, made his (baritone) début in I pagliacci.
		From 1929 until retirement in 1950, Melchior's career was based in New York, with guest appearances in Europe and South America.
		It is said that Sir Thomas Beecham closed a speech of congratulation to Melchior on the occasion of his 100th appearance as Siegmund with the words "Quite soon we shall expect you to know the role by heart!".
	www.naxos.com /scripts/Artists_gallery/other_artists.asp?artist_name=Melchior_Lauritz&artisttype=historical (241 words)

	Origin and Meaning of Melchior - Baby Names
		The boy's name Melchior is of Polish, Persian and Farsi origin.
		Melchior is an uncommon male first name as it was not ranked for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
		Melchior is a very popular surname, ranking 14545 out of 88799 for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Melchior (174 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7816, Lauritz Melchior - Booklet Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Melchior is arguably the greatest Wagnerian tenor of the century and while his recordings of the great scenes from Wagner's operas are justly renowned it is perhaps a pity that his performances of other repertoire have not enjoyed the same recognition.
		Lauritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen on 20th March 1890 sharing his birthday with Beniamino Gigli.
		Melchior's long career demonstrates that physical strength combined with a flawless vocal technique can sustain a voice and prevent it from damage even in the most taxing dramatic repertoire.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7816c.html (532 words)

	Lauritz Melchior -- Who's Who at Dana College
		He sang with a model legato and a feel for the shape and direction of a phrase and an equalised scale that was the envy of many a bel canto singer.
		This may be acceptable, on one level, in the opera house where a certain bombast is expected in romantic arias, but it does not fit comfortably in the context of musical comedy where a sense of intimacy is demanded for songs like the two I have mentioned.
		Melchior's first success as a tenor was at Covent Garden, London, in 1924.
	www.nathankramer.com /dana/whoswho/bios/melchior.lauritz.htm (479 words)

	Lauritz Melchior
		auritz Melchior was born in Copenhagen in 1890 (on the same day as Beniamino Gigli) and, having studied at the Royal Opera School, made his (baritone) début in I pagliacci.
		From 1929 until retirement in 1950, Melchior 's career was based in New York, with guest appearances in Europe and South America.
		Van 1929 tot aan zijn pensionering in 1950, was Melchior 's loopbaan gebazeerd in New York, met gastoptredens in Europa en Zuid Amerika.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /lauritz_melchior.html (446 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Flagstad & Melchior: The Complete Wagner Duets - - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flagstad and Melchior were the biggest box office draws at the Met, and together with the Rethberg/Martinelli/ Tibbett trio (Otello and Simon Boccanegra) helped keep the Met afloat during the depression years.
		Melchior, one of the biggest tenor voices (heck...one of the biggest tenors ever!) made an inauspicious debut in NY in the early twenties, but remained with the company for nearly a quarter of a century.
		Melchior is often accused of sloppiness, but he is not sloppy in anything recorded here.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-B000000WQ8.html (790 words)

	Lauritz Melchior Filmography
		Between 1945 and 1953, Lauritz Melchior played supporting roles of various size in five movie musicals for MGM and Paramount studios.
		The major creative force behind Melchior's four movies at MGM was their producer, Hungarian-born Joe Pasternak (1901-1991), who had formerly worked in German and Austrian films before emigrating to the US as a result of the Anschluss.
		Lauritz Melchior plays Nils Knudsen, a famous aging opera singer on vacation- and on a starvation diet.
	www.heroictenor.com /filmography.html (1311 words)

	Scandinavian Review: Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years of Bayreuth
		Melchior died in 1973, two days short of his 83rd birthday, but he grows more legendary each year.
		Melchior left his son, Ib, a large collection of scrapbooks and letters, photo albums and scores, programs and pamphlets spanning his entire career.
		The Lauritz Melchior Memorial Room at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska-that the author describes as the only Danish-oriented college in the United States-contains most of what his illustrious father bequeathed to him.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200307/ai_n9277119 (280 words)

	Lauritz Melchior - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lauritz Melchior - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior -often misspelled Melchoir- (March 20, 1890 – March 18, 1973) was a Danish, later American opera singer.
		Lauritz Melchior, References, External link, 1890 births, 1973 deaths, Danish opera singers, Male singers, Tenors and Danish Americans.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lauritz_Melchior (539 words)

	Lauritz Melchior - Specifications
		Lauritz Melchior (Baritone); Lauritz Melchior (Tenor); Frida Leider (Soprano); Lotte Lehmann (Soprano); Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano)
		Frida Leider (Soprano), Lauritz Melchior (Baritone), Lauritz Melchior (Tenor)
		Lauritz Melchior (Baritone), Lauritz Melchior (Tenor), Lotte Lehmann (Soprano)
	cd.ciao.co.uk /Lauritz_Melchior__6159298/TabId/4 (193 words)

	VIP Records: Die Walkure Act 1
		Lauritz Melchior, who was featured in my previous CD collection titled Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad: Scenes From Wagner (VIP OP-1001), was the supreme heldentenor of the century.
		One of Melchiors signature roles was Siegmund-- he sang it a total of 183 times in his career.
		The EMI References CD (and that label's other Melchior reissues) have a tonal quality that is clear but thin, wiry, and weak, with a mechanical characteristic that suggests a failure to properly balance the sound, as if the transfer were done "by the numbers" without regard to any defects in the sound of the matrices.
	www.vintageip.com /records/vipop1002.html (1562 words)

	Voice of Firestone - Lauritz Melchior Vol. 2: kultur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The voice of tenor Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973) has come to be regarded as the standard by which all other Wagnerian tenors are judged.
		In contrast to his celebrated portrayals of the solemn and forbidding Wagnerian heroes, Melchior possessed a robust sense of humor and unique personal charm which endeared him to a large and diverse public.
		This second volume devoted to Melchior's appearances on "The Voice of Firestone" telecasts further reveals the tenor as a consummate artist and a thoroughly engaging personality.
	www.kultur.com /page/kultur/PROD/2427 (145 words)

	Lauritz Melchior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Melchior Lauritz made his debut in Copenhagen in 1913 as a baritone in Pagliacci and became a tenor in 1918.
		He has left us a wealth of recordings, especially with Ezio Pinza and the above-mentioned Kirsten Flagstadt which made him one of the best-loved tenors of his time.
		He was the honorary president of the Richard Wagner Society of America and founded the Melchior Heldentenor Foundation to foster new Heldentenoren.
	www.operaitaliana.com /autori/interprete.asp?ID=157 (134 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Lauritz Melchior
		After much high-level socializing and lobbying by Walpole, Melchior was engaged to do his first Siegmund under the baton of Bruno Walter at Covent Garden in May of 1924, before going to his first season at Bayreuth.
		Melchior's Metropolitan Opera debut as Tannhäuser was under-rehearsed and overshadowed by the debut that night of Marian Tally.
		Most of the world's great Wagnerian ensemble, of which Melchior was now a part, appeared at the Metropolitan eventually, even before 1931, when Hitler's activities against Jewish musical colleagues prompted Melchior's decision to leave Bayreuth and to abjure German houses forever.
	www.andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biom3/melc1.html (499 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lauritz Melchior (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Lauritz Melchior, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Lauritz Melchior[lou´rits mel´kEOr] Pronunciation Key, 1890–1973, Danish heroic tenor.
		In addition to possessing a great voice, Melchior was an exciting actor.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MelchiorL.html (236 words)

	Melchior, Lauritz -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Born Lebrecht Hommel in Copenhagen, Denmark, Melchior made his debut with the Copenhagen Royal Opera in 1913.
		He had intended to become a missionary to the East Indies, but he was persuaded in 1741 to accept a call to the United Congregations, three Lutheran parishes in and around Philadelphia, Pa. His first task was healing a...
		The German-born clergyman and scholar Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–87) is recognized as the founder of Lutheranism in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9329735 (488 words)

	Lauritz Melchior in Opera and Song, V. 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lauritz Melchior in Opera and Song, V. Lauritz Melchior in Opera and Song, V. Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Lauritz Melchior in Opera and Song, V. to receive a rating.
		Danish opera tenor Lauritz Melchior is one of the world's most expert performers of Wagner operas.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/lauritz_melchior_in_opera_and_song_v_2 (358 words)

	The Classical Music Guide - Record Review of Wagner: Siegfried (abridged)
		Lauritz Melchior (Siegfried) - Fafner is sung by an anonymous bass
		Melchior was ever the Siegfried of course and he is surrounded by what is by and large the best cast of its time.
		Her voice is of considerable volume, her tone is firm and the feeling of the role shows why she was a stalwart at the Met and Covent Gardens in her day.
	www.classicalmusicguide.com /rreviews/rr_wagnersiegfried.htm (896 words)

	Lauritz Melchior - Hotel Resource Book Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It's a shame that Arturo Toscanini was never able to record a complete Ring Cycle, but this CD provides us with generous snippets (what they call in the trade "bleeding chunks") of two of the Ring operas, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung.
		Friedrich Schorr (1888-1953) was the greatest Wagnerian bass-baritone of the "golden age" of Wagner singing in the inter-war years of the Twenties and Thirties which included Melchior, Leider, Lehmann, Rethberg, and Flagstad.
		This is a 1936 recording of a live performance conducted by Reiner and featuring Flagstad and Melchior.
	www.hotelresource.com /bookstore/artistsearch_Lauritz%20Melchior/mode_music.html (434 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Great Opera Recordings - Wagner: Siegfried
		The Siegfried is Lauritz Melchior, possibly the finest Siegfried ever, certainly undisputed on discs from the '20s to the late '40s.
		Brünnhilde is the remarkable Florence Easton, a soprano who had the widest of repertoires (she sang Santuzza and Gilda as well as Brünnhilde and Isolde) and who, while not possessing the broadest of Wagnerian sounds, nonetheless retains utter clarity from top to bottom, has a real trill, and sings with confidence and poise.
		Lauritz Melchior (Tenor), Friedrich Schorr (Bass Baritone), Heinrich Tessmer (Tenor)
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=89617 (318 words)

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