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Word: heink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles with frank Freudian overtones of a kind the operatic stage had not seen before and would not see again until Berg's Wozzeck. All in all, the audience tended to agree with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again. "It was frightful," said she. "We were a set of madwomen. There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived to reach the farthest boundary in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Strauss goes beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moanin' Becomes Elektra | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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