Talk:Kirsten Flagstad
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:NOK 100.JPG
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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Difficulties from WWII
The following section ("World War II and post-war difficulties") was recently (14 January, 2008) removed in its entirety. (Link to diff.)
- In 1941, with the outbreak of World War II, Flagstad returned to Norway to be with her husband Henry Johansen and remained there throughout the war. She did not sing in Norway or any German occupied country during the war. Instead, she made a point of singing in Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband was arrested for war profiteering after the war because he had sold supplies to the Germans. He was already seriously ill and died shortly thereafter, whereupon his estate was impounded by the state. Although her own wartime record was free from controversy, Flagstad's return to Norway during the war and a certain political naiveté on her part created ill-feeling towards her, particularly in the United States where the Norwegian ambassador waged a relentless personal campaign against her. The columnist Walter Winchell also ran an ugly campaign against her; Melchior and Edward Johnson both refused to come to her aid. At a concert in Philadelphia, audience members threw stink-bombs at her. Conductor Arturo Toscanini, a strong anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi, chose Helen Traubel, rather than Flagstad, to sing opposite Lauritz Melchior in his radio broadcasts of Wagner at NBC.
I don't know the details, but I do know that residual bitterness after the war affected Flagstad's career, and I think that is relevant in the article. Elphion (talk) 23:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
In the absence of any comments, I am restoring some of this material. Elphion (talk) 06:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Of the material above, User:Krankenhaus (who removed it) observes:
Large portions of this section (and others in the article) are plagiarized from the New Grove Dictionary of Music.
Elphion (talk) 06:45, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
