Word: frau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against such scenic showmanship, Veteran Soprano Leonie Rysanek held her own, reaffirming the belief of many critics that she is the world's greatest interpreter of the role. New Zealander Donald Mclntyre, who was impressive last year as Barak in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten at Covent Garden, used his deep baritone voice as an apocalyptic Dutchman. Alabama-born Tenor Jean Cox, as Erik, successfully followed Everding's instructions to behave as if he were "the only normal human being in the action...
...Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress and the human world of the dyer...
When she purchased her first supply of birth control pills last year, West German Housewife Ursula Knack, then 27, was a bit puzzled by the label on the bottle. Her doctor had prescribed "Eu-gynon," but the bottle was marked "En-zynorm" - an aid to digestion. Frau Knack simply concluded that the Pill must be sold under a disguised name be cause some people disapprove...
...result was an 8-lb. boy named Thomas Knack, whose coming was no cause for celebration in the Knack household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...
...gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more age and experience can be expected to convey. Among the ladies, Jan Gough does especially well as as Frau Anna Kopecka: her presence is grand although some of her readings could be sharpened in urgency. She and Nancy McGill carry most of the songs, and both deliver the remarkable Hanns Eisler tunes in fine, direct style. David Dunton scores a minor comic triumph as Bullinger, the harried SS functionary...