Yale Alumni Magazine Curtain Calls
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… or the beloved, bearlike tenor Leo Slezak, who sang under another contemporary composer: Gustav Mahler. In Lohengrin one night, Slezak failed to step onto the back of the swan that was supposed to bear him offstage; seeing it glide into the wings without him, he famously asked, “When does the next swan leave?”