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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a red cloak at a bullfight was the red morocco brief case which Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning carried ostentatiously under his arm last week as he entered the Reichstag to put his new Cabinet (TIME, April 7) to the test-a vote of confidence...
Wagner's Götterdämmerung begins with three Norns darkly spinning the fates which are to enmesh the erring gods. Light breaks when their prophecy is told. The swaggering Siegfried enters and after him Brünnhilde in the full ecstasy of love. This moment, important in any performance of Götterdämmerung, was doubly significant last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for Brünnhilde was Soprano Elisabeth Ohms making...
...from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala in Milan...
...scenery and costumes for the Munich opera) and intelligence (she speaks many languages fluently). But Manhattan last week was unwilling to give her unqualified approval on a single hearing. Critics confessed themselves swayed by her fine flair for the stage, conceded that the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde is the most taxing role in all grand opera. But her voice they found to spread unpleasantly, to be piercing in the upper register. Its colors were not deep enough, some said, to suggest a woman given to great love, revenge, final understanding...