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Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 36, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and onetime protege of Leonard Bernstein, and Vera Ozawa, an ex-model: their first child, a girl; in San Francisco...
...recording is a knockout, fully comparable to London's history-making Ring cycle. Conductor Georg Solti, today's top conductor of Wagner, makes the opera brilliant and unabashedly grand. As Venus, Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig seethes with eroticism, suggesting a world of impossible sexuality. Soprano Helga Dernesch as Elisabeth, Wagner's virginal opposite to Venus, is the perfect embodiment of pinched Victorian purity. Best of all is Tenor René Kollo, a German pop singer metamorphosed into a Heldentenor, who sings Tannhäuser with a gleaming tone, power, and a dramatic force unequaled since Lauritz Melchior...
...when they were named heirs designate to the artistic direction of London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Conductor Colin Davis and Director Peter Hall announced that they planned "to turn the opera house upside down." By this fall, when their appointments were to take effect, what had been turned upside down was their plans. Hall had pulled out of the partnership on short notice, having decided that the opera would take too much time from his film and stage commitments. Davis was left to carry on alone, with no intention of finding another partner. "When you have been...
DEBUSSY: IMAGES, PRÉLUDE À L'APRÈSMIDI D'UN FAUNE (DGG); TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 1-Winter Dreams (DGG). These sumptuous, adroit performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra show that Michael Tilson Thomas is no longer a superb young conductor-just a superb conductor...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (Angel, 5 LPs). Aural splendor engineered by Meister-Conductor Herbert von Karajan...