Word: frau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized," said Richard Strauss of the Meisterwerk of his middle age, "that the opera would never have much success." He was speaking of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), the huge complex of mythology and symbolism that he constructed with Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal during World War I. Strauss guessed correctly: since its premiere in Vienna in 1919, the work has rarely been staged in Europe and never in the U.S. Last week Die Frau finally appeared on a U.S. stage in a San Francisco Opera production that made cheering audiences wonder where she had been...
...probably agree to testify on the matter-provided his Cabinet gave its consent. In case the Cabinet didn't, Adenauer's Socialist opponents were preparing a batch of questions to throw at der Alte in the Bundestag. Among them: Was it true that Adenauer's daughter, Frau Lotte Multhaupt, had also enjoyed the use of a "borrowed...
...Germany was a Darmstadt professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...
Richard Strauss, a giant in his own right, stood between the influences of two other musical greats. He acknowledged one when, as he began work on Der Rosenkavalier in 1909, he said: "This time I shall write a Mozart opera." He repeatedly acknowledged Richard Wagner before starting Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), a huge opera that sounds thunderous echoes of the Ring cycle as well as of Strauss's own tone poems. Now recorded for the first time in an ambitious five-disk set by London, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is one of the most...
...first it was touch and go as people rushed to buy suddenly unrationed goods. But Erhard shrewdly counted on merchants and farmers to bring out of hiding carefully hoarded goods, figured these would fill the gap until new production could get rolling under the stimulus of freed prices. "Na, Frau Muhr," he would ask his secretary each day, "are there still any textiles left in the shop windows this morning?" As prices soared, outraged citizens hoisted "Erhard to the Gallows" banners, and trade unions demanded a return to rationing and price controls. Replied Erhard: "We must let prices fluctuate. They...