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Soprano Ingrid Bjoner was generally first rate as a shyly aggressive Eva. Bass Karl Doench was appropriately repellent as Beckmesser, the malevolent town clerk whom Wagner created as a caricature of one of his most caustic critics-Viennese Music Critic Eduard Hanslick. The chorus and extras were drilled with spectacular precision, creating at the end of Act II one of the most convincing pillow-throwing, hair-pulling riots a Met Meistersinger has ever seen...
...blind man, lacking even the tragic dignity that a suggestion of malevolent fate might give his life. He is ridiculed by his captain (Tenor Paul Franke), who seems to stand for all the bluster of petty militarism. He is used as a guinea pig by a doctor (Bass Karl Doench), a sadistic, fanatical embodiment of science. Finally, he is betrayed by his sluttish mistress Marie (Soprano Eleanor Steber), and he stabs her. Wozzeck himself drowns trying to recover the discarded knife. In a poignant last scene, their child (Alice Plotkin) trots off, unaware and innocent, on his hobbyhorse to view...
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