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Good French singers are as rare as good French boxers, but Crespin is the grand exception. Born in Marseille in 1927, she made her debut at the Paris Opera at 24 in Lohengrin, and the German repertory has been her forte ever since. Audiences at Bayreuth and Vienna have been astonished by the precision of her diction, a triumph Crespin considers her most significant. "When I have a success," she says, "it is a double one. I always have to fight against the Italian and German sopranos." On her top notes, her insistence on singing all the consonants often makes...
Most marriages are ratified at a glowing religious ceremony, complete with flowers, white bridal gown, and organ chords from Lohengrin; most divorces are carried out in the dry, drab ritual of a civil court.But unlike Catholics and Protestants, Orthodox Jews have their own formal religious ceremony to sunder a marriage.Performing this seldom seen rite is the job of Manhattan's Beth Din (meaning court of justice), which last week completed its first full year of operation as the nation's most unusual divorce tribunal...
...shellac-his voice had the tenoresque freshness, vigor and ringing power that later carried him trii umphantly through 24 years at the Met and 223 Tristans. Among the album's treasures: a 1924 scene from Siegfried ("Nothung! Not hung! Schmiede mein Hammer"), and the Bridal Chamber Scene, from Lohengrin, recorded...
...Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin and Mathis der Maler. Minnesota-born Bass-Baritone Keith Engen, 35, one of the stars of the Munich Opera, is so idolized in Germany that he obligingly changed the spelling of his first name to "Kieth" to make it easier for audiences...
...Flying Dutchman, who first came to Bayreuth four years ago as a visiting teenager; Texas-born Thomas Stewart, 32, who was selected for the impressive role of Amfortas in Parsifal after illness forced George London to cancel; U.S. Conductor Lorin Maazel, 30, who accounted for a fine reading of Lohengrin, thus becoming the first American and the youngest conductor of any nation in the Bayreuth...