Helen Traubel

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 Isolde. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she began her career as a concert singer and went on to sing at the Metropolitan Opera from 1937 to 1953. Starting in the 1950s, she also developed a career as a nightclub and cabaret singer as well as appearing in television, films and musical theatre. Traubel spent her later years in Santa Monica, California, where she died at the age of 73.

Traubel was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prosperous family of German descent. She was the daughter of Otto Ferdinand Traubel, a pharmacist, and Clara Traubel (née Stuhr). She studied singing in her native city with Louise Vetta-Karst and later in New York City with Giuseppe Boghetti among other teachers. She made her debut as a concert singer with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1923, and in 1926 she got a first offer to join the Metropolitan Opera company after performing the aria Liebestod at the Lewisohn Stadium under conductor Rudolph Ganz. She turned down the offer in order to continue with her studies and career as a concert singer. Traubel made her first appearance on the opera stage on May 12, 1937, when the composer Walter Damrosch asked her to portray the role of Mary Rutledge in the world premiere of his opera The Man Without a Country at the Met. Later that year she made her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company with whom she was active until the company went bankrupt in 1939. In 1940 she joined the roster of the Chicago Opera Company, remaining active with that company until it too went bankrupt in 1946. She sang in several performances with the San Francisco Opera in 1945 and 1947; making her debut with the company as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre on October 9, 1945 with Lauritz Melchior as Siegmund, Margaret Harshaw as Fricka, and William Steinberg conducting.

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FIFA's recently elected President Gianni Infantino told its governing council a salary offer made to him by the soccer group's compensation committee was "insulting," according to report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The newspaper's report, based on the leak of a recording... ....

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Public Events at the Library May–July 2016 (The Library of Congress)

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(Source. The Library of Congress). Contact. Erin Allen (202) 707-7302. Website.Public Events at the Library of Congress. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov. April 26, 2016. MEDIA ADVISORY. Public Events at the Library of Congress, May-July 2016 ... MAY 2016. Tuesday, May 3. LECTURE ... Contact ... Exploring the Helen Traubel Collection at the Library of Congress' at noon in the Pickford Theater ... Dr ... R....

A Most Ingenious Paradox

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Many opera companies have experimented with updating works from the standard repertoire in order to make them more relevant to contemporary audiences ... Gilbert, entitled Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack ... Television audiences across America were charmed on April 29, 1960, when Groucho Marx played Ko-Ko opposite Helen Traubel's Katisha in a condensed television production of The Mikado for The Bell Telephone Hour ... ....

Wagner’s Isolde at 150, still dying of love (John S and James L Knight Foundation) ...

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(Source. John S and James L Knight Foundation). Sensational Swede Nina Stemme will open the Met 2016-17 as Isolde. She died of love but is alive and kicking, all of 150 years old. No, she's not the delicate Guatemalan maiden of José Martí's poem ("The girl from Guatemala, The girl that died of love") but a northern, and generally speaking more robust relative ... music ... We had Helen Traubel, Eileen Farrell and Margaret Harshaw....

Nine New Commissions to be Performed in 90th Anniversary Season of “Concerts from the Library ...

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(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Jennifer Gavin (202) 707-1940. Public contact. Nicholas Brown (202) 707-8437. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov. August 4, 2015. Nine New Commissions to be Performed in 90th Anniversary Season of "Concerts from the Library of Congress" ... 30, 1944 ... debut Nov ... 30, 1944 ... Starting on Sept ... L ... Exploring the Helen Traubel Collection"....

A Profile of Soprano Christine Brewer - At the Interlochen Summer Arts Festival, 8/2

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On Sunday, August 2, the lucky attendants at this year's Interlochen Summer Arts Festival will hear soprano Christine Brewer perform Samuel Barber's Knoxville. Summer of 1915 ... It is Agee - reflecting on an "A-ha!" moment from childhood ... He has a place there ... Oh, sure ... When he did, I pulled these songs out of his file, choosing the songs that I knew four divas had sung - Eileen Farrell, Helen Traubel, Kirsten Flagstad, and Eleanor Steber ... ....

Christine Brewer elected to St. Louis Hall of Fame

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St. Louis' hometown diva is finally getting her star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Soprano Christine Brewer has sung leading roles in hard-to-cast repertoire by Wagner, Strauss and Britten in virtually all of the world's great opera houses, from the Met to San Francisco to Sydney ... Her connection with St ... Brewer, who joins Helen Traubel and Grace Bumbry on the operatic side of things, said she was excited by the honor ... ....

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Born: 1899-06-16

Died: 1972-07-28