Word: hertha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the limitations of this plot, the acting is superb. The teacher, played by Dorothea Wieck, is effective because she acts with amazing restraint. Hertha Thiele, as the tear-stained orphan, is occasionally coy, but she is usually anemic, thus revealing her psychological state. Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that...
Mozart: Great Mass In C Minor, K. 427 (Rosl Schweiger and Hertha Toepper, sopranos; Hugo Meyer-Welfing, tenor; George London, bass; Anton Heiller, organist; the Akademie Chorus of Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Meinhard von Zallinger conducting; the Haydn Society, 4 sides LP). This is not the greatest of Mozart's 60 "operas for the angels," but it is one that deserves to be heard oftener. Performance and recording: good...