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- Helen Traubel (June 16, 1899 - July 28, 1972) was an American operatic dramatic soprano, best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she made her debut as a concert singer with the St. Louis Symphony in 1923. In 1926 she got a first offer to join the Metropolitan Opera company which she turned down to continue with her studies. She didn't appear on the opera stage until May 12, 1937, when the composer Walter Damrosch asked her to sing the first performance of his opera The Man without a Country. Since the Met already had two first-class Wagnerian sopranos, Kirsten Flagstad and Marjorie Lawrence, Traubel at first had difficulty finding her niche. Her debut as a regular company member was as Sieglinde in Die Walküre, the only standard role which she had previously sung, at the Chicago Opera. Flagstad left the US in 1941 to visit her homeland of Norway and couldn't return for political reasons. The same year, Lawrence was stricken with polio and her career was curtailed. On February 22, 1941, Traubel sang with tenor Lauritz Melchior in excerpts from Wagnerian operas on the live broadcast concert of the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The broadcast originated from Carnegie Hall at a time when the NBC orchestra usually performed in NBC Studio 8-H. RCA Victor later released some of the music from the concert. Traubel later triumphed in Tannhäuser and in Tristan und Isolde. She was renowned for her strong voice, which was often described as a "gleaming sword"; her endurance and purity of tone were unsurpassed, especially as Brünnhilde and Isolde. Although she longed to sing Italian opera, she never did in a complete performance, although she often included Italian arias in her recital repertoire. Towards the end of her Met career, she did add the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier briefly to her repertoire. Traubel's contract wasn't renewed in 1953 when the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing expressed disapproval of her radio and TV appearances with the likes of Jimmy Durante and her expressed desire to expand her lucrative career in major supper and night clubs. Traubel went on to appear at the Copacabana, as well as in many cameo television roles. After her Met career, she appeared on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein failure, Pipe Dream, playing a bordello madame with a heart of gold and the voice of Isolde. Additionally, she appeared in the films Deep in My Heart, Gunn and The Ladies Man. She also appeared opposite Groucho Marx as Katisha in a Bell Telephone presentation (abridged) of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Traubel wrote a murder mystery, The Metropolitan Opera Murders (1951), which features a soprano heroine, Elsa Vaughan, who helps solve the mystery, as well as being a thinly-disguised portrait of Traubel herself. She also wrote an autobiography, St. Louis Woman (1959). For her contribution to the recording industry, Helen Traubel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6422 Hollywood Blvd. In 1994 she was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Helen Traubel died in Santa Monica, California, aged 73, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
- Helen Traubel war eine US-amerikanische Sopranistin.
- Helen Traubel fue una soprano dramática norteamericana nacida en Saint Louis, Missouri el 16 de junio de 1898 y fallecida en Santa Mónica, California en 1972. De medios generosos y heroicos (definidos como "una espada radiante") fue la mas importante exponente del canto wagneriano en América en la década del 40, sólo comparable a Flagstad en los personajes de Isolda, Brunilda, Elsa y Elisabeth de Tannhäuser. De personalidad extrovertida y sencilla no se comportaba como las divas de la época. Debutó en 1923 pero fue su rendición de la Muerte de amor de Isolda en el Estadio Lewinsohn la que causó gran impresión a Gatti-Casazza, director del Met que inmediatamente le ofreció un contrato y que ella rechazó argumentando que debía volver a sus estudios. En 1939 canta en el Metropolitan Opera la Sieglinde de La Valquiria junto a Lauritz Melchior y la noruega Kirsten Flagstad, entonces insuperable soprano wagneriana. En 1941 - el día del ataque a Pearl Harbor - reemplaza a Flagstad como Brünnhilde en La Valquiria en una noche histórica donde también debutó Astrid Varnay reemplazando a Lotte Lehmann como Sieglinde. Entre 1941 y 1950, Traubel se transforma en la indispensable soprano wagneriana de América, en 1943 debuta en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires como Isolda y Brunilda en El ocaso de los dioses de Wagner. Otros papeles que interpretó fueron Kundry y la Mariscala. En 1953 sus desavenencias con el director del teatro neoyorkino motivan no renovarle el contrato. La cantante se retiró de la escena lírica para actuar en nightclubs de New York, Chicago, Las Vegas y Miami, musicales de Broadway y en películas de Hollywood junto a Jimmy Durante y en televisión con Groucho Marx, Red Skelton y Jerry Lewis. Escribio una novela de misterio The Metropolitan Opera Murders (1951) y su autobiografía St. Louis Woman (1959).
- Helen Traubel était une soprano américaine, réputée pour ses interprétations des grands rôles wagnériens, en particulier celui de Brunehilde dans L'Anneau du Nibelung. Née à Saint-Louis, elle a débuté comme chanteuse de concert avec l'orchestre symphonique de Saint Louis en 1923. Helen Traubel est enterrée au Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery de Los Angeles.
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- Helen Traubel (June 16, 1899 - July 28, 1972) was an American operatic dramatic soprano, best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she made her debut as a concert singer with the St. Louis Symphony in 1923. In 1926 she got a first offer to join the Metropolitan Opera company which she turned down to continue with her studies.
- Helen Traubel war eine US-amerikanische Sopranistin.
- Helen Traubel fue una soprano dramática norteamericana nacida en Saint Louis, Missouri el 16 de junio de 1898 y fallecida en Santa Mónica, California en 1972. De medios generosos y heroicos (definidos como "una espada radiante") fue la mas importante exponente del canto wagneriano en América en la década del 40, sólo comparable a Flagstad en los personajes de Isolda, Brunilda, Elsa y Elisabeth de Tannhäuser.
- Helen Traubel était une soprano américaine, réputée pour ses interprétations des grands rôles wagnériens, en particulier celui de Brunehilde dans L'Anneau du Nibelung. Née à Saint-Louis, elle a débuté comme chanteuse de concert avec l'orchestre symphonique de Saint Louis en 1923. Helen Traubel est enterrée au Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery de Los Angeles.
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