Word: liebestod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bruno Walter (Mon. 3:40 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at Lake Lucerne (see above) in Wagner's Bacchanale from Tannhduser, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde...
...just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician. At the moment of her capitulation the ecstatic composer captures the long-sought theme for his "Liebestod." Mme Wesendonck then understands that when he makes love to her he has in his mind only the bright image of Isolde. This so disconcerts her that she decides not to accompany him after...
...This able Jew had arrived ailing from the effects of a Vienna performance of Tristan wud Isolde at which Nazi bullyboys threw stink bombs, ending the opera with the plump Isolde (Soprano Anny Konetzni) lying mute and gasping on Tristan's body while the orchestra wabbled through the Liebestod. To Walter at Salzburg was allotted Tristan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gluck's Orptmis and Eurydice...
...sing. Though she indulged in no pyrotechnics, she was quietly effective as she raised the cup, offered the love potion to Tristan. Again at the end she reached rare heights when, with her voice still fresh and sure, she kneeled beside Tristan's body and sang the demanding Liebestod...
Prelude and Liebestod form Tristan and Isoide--Wagner...