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Show U. S. Operagoers Feel Inferior orchestras nd conductor la the world. But they cannot Judge any of the other things that go Into opera, ao that In every other way w hare the worst operatic per - formsnccs In the world." i BALTIMORE, Msy 18 Ul Americas Amer-icas operagoers suffer from a vast Inferiority complex la Judging do-mestla do-mestla talent, Boris Goldovsky said today, although "we have the finest singers, orchestral and conductor! ia the world." The head of the opera department la th Cleveland Institute of Music told delegates to th National Federation Fed-eration of Music Clubs' convention th Inferior feeling also extends to opera sung In English. "English wss good enough for Shakespeare, Keats and quite a few like that it ought to be good enough for Wagner and Verdi." The translations ar mostly "utterly "ut-terly wrong." said he, but some from Wsgner "sr better then the Uer-maa Uer-maa original; in fact. I would say they are better as English than Wsgner's German is as German." The trouble is In English trsnsls-(lons trsnsls-(lons "th vowels are all different lengths when sung than when spoken." spo-ken." One "ah" may be held two measures and "when the singer lets it go you've forgotten whst the rest of ths word is." "There ar two ways of listening to opera." h added. "One way you close your eyes and sosk up ths lovely sounds. Ths other, you listen with your eyes and ears open, understanding un-derstanding every word and every inflection, This last Is not the American way. "American audiences can judge perfectly the singing and instrumental instru-mental accompaniments, so here we have the finest singers, the finest |