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...realism that they could be sold today as luxury condominiums. Eisenstein's residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes to grandeur, Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's magnum of a production has popped its cork...
...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...
...surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily 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...
...does Part II, post-1945, measure up to Part I, pre- 1933? Regrettably, not very well. Its beginnings include some striking and even distinguished paintings, notably Wols' scratched, muffled lumps of inert matter, pathetic as the scribblings on the wall of some mental dungeon, and some of Gunther Ueker's nail reliefs from the early '60s. But it is hard to raise much enthusiasm for Richard Oelze's spectral streetscapes or even late Max Ernst, let alone the sensitive but essentially academic abstractions by Willi Baumeister or Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Such things seem included as tunings-up for what...
...nearly three hours, engaging the audience in a spirited discussion of what some critics call the "garbage play." The protesters argued that staging the play, whose main character is an unscrupulous real estate speculator identified as "A., the Rich Jew," will revive anti-Jewish feelings in the country. Director Gunther Ruhle insisted that Fassbinder, a * well-known moviemaker, only intended to criticize modern anti-Semitism. Such purposes may seem elusive in a play in which one character says of the protagonist, "They forgot to gas him." The demonstrators, backed by 500 cheering supporters outside the theater, vowed that they would...