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...Lehmann pinned his hopes to two monster new productions: Rameau's forgotten Les Indes Galantes and Weber's beautiful but silly Oberon. "I wanted to give people plenty to look at," he says. "Les Indes has a shipwreck with thunder and lightning. In Oberon, cities appear by magic and goddesses are wafted to the clouds." Last week, the Paris public and press were devouring the new Oberon like happy children with ice cream cones...
...only a few real enthusiasts have been turning up to see the Lohengrin?, and the Pagliaccis sung against dusty backgrounds; the 2,300-seat Paris Opera House has been half empty even on gala ballet nights. But two years ago the management signed a new director, Maurice Lehmann, a man with the outsized imagination of a Cecil B. de Mille; since then, things have been looking...
Critics were almost as enthusiastic as the audience, decided that, with a touch of temperament, she could be the successor to such great lieder singers as Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann. "A stunning example of vocal artistry," said the New York Times. "A memorable demonstration," said the Herald Tribune...
Confession Stones. Since before World War II, Dr. Karl Lehmann of New York University has been digging away at an even older center of religion: the temple of "the Great Gods," who were old when Greece was young. Their headquarters was on the Aegean island of Samothrace, and their "mystery" (basically a worship of fertility) began before Homeric times and lasted into the Christian period...
...latest tour of digging, Dr. Lehmann unearthed some of the holiest objects in the Great Gods' system. Near one of the temples, he dug up a stone base with a hole to support a large torch. On either side of it are two stone blocks. He believes that on these blocks, often described in ancient literature, stood the candidates who were about to be admitted to higher ranks of the religion. The exact rites of initiation were kept secret, but they are known to have included a confession of sins...