Word: gotterdammerung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Melchiors -- comes along. Vocally, this cycle offers only two major performances. Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, in the title role in Siegfried, may lack the ideal resonance at the top, but his voice is fresh and warm, and he cuts a handsome, lithe figure as the hero. As Waltraute in Gotterdammerung, Waltraud Meier got the week's biggest ovation for a blazing performance...
...greeting. The high school bits are apparently meant to be spoofs, except for a bizarre dance about slaughtering a pig, which turns out, inadvertently, to be the funniest moment. As gross-out entertainment, Carrie fails to deliver. Early scenes offer literal stage blood and fire, but the gymnasium Gotterdammerung is all metaphor. It is just smoke and flashing lights and lasers asking to be transformed by the audience's imagination -- a quality lacking in the creators of this mismatched morass...
...summer reached its climax, the Democrats and the forces of protest came to Chicago. For a long time the nation had been flirting with forms of gotterdammerung, with extremes of vocabulary and behavior and an appetite for violent resolution...
...vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
...French conductor and composer who speaks no German and has never commanded a Ring before. Rosenthal leads a symphonic performance noteworthy for its clarity and color. At its best, as in Die Walkure, Rosenthal's view of the score is fluid and graceful; at its worst, as in Gotterdammerung, it is merely glib. "There is too much emphasis on heaviness in the Ring," says the diminutive Rosenthal, who conducted the Seattle Symphony from 1949 to 1951. "I discovered the French side of this music, the fantastic orchestration that I never suspected was there...