Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days later Jacqueline Cole awoke, smiled and returned her husband's joyous kiss. "Miracles can and do occur," said the happy minister. "I guess we've muddied the waters surrounding the question of a person's right to die." His wife is walking with the help of a metal frame, her memory slowly returning. Doctors hope to send her home in six weeks...
...daughter's; he even attends the girl's birthday party with Francis' parents in Normandy. Still, Turner will always be a foreigner everywhere but inside his music. Paris may be a "very pretty town," but "happiness is a warm, wet Rico reed." The man has to go home to die...
...that remains the ultimate test of operatic mettle. Despite its imposing demands, the Ring has been scaled repeatedly in the past four years -- at Bayreuth, San Francisco and Seattle, among other places. Last week the Metropolitan Opera took up the challenge, opening its 103rd season with a production of Die Walkure, the first installment of a new Ring...
...long overdue. The last Met Ring was an unlucky affair directed by Conductor Herbert von Karajan, which began in 1967 with Die Walkure. Karajan had produced only half of the cycle when a labor dispute disrupted the 1969-70 season and he dropped out; the Ring was completed several years later by Director Wolfgang Weber. This current production, designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk, is being introduced over three seasons, and will be staged complete...
...five-hour Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the sequence. Several of the Ring's most appealing characters are introduced, including the doomed incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Brunnhilde, the warrior maiden whose sympathetic heart causes her to be stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire...