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During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
...incident could not have happened last week at Bayreuth, where Richard Wagner's grandson Wieland staged a Lohengrin so abstract that the swan was merely a sketchily suggested stationary prop, while the hero made his exit on a descending elevator platform. Since 1951. Wieland Wagner, 41, alternating with his younger brother Wolfgang, 38, has been staging the most effective Wagner productions to be seen anywhere. (He has now redraped all the standard Wagner operas with the exception of The Flying Dutchman, which he will stage in 1960.) Last week's de-swanned Lohengrin was among the best...
...great fortune, but her prospects of getting even a pfennig of it have dimmed to the vanishing point. Facing her eviction stoically, Paula indulged in some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind to me when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were children, he would tell me that if anyone was unkind to me he would protect me." Had she ever foreseen Hitler's rise to Führer? "No," said she with a smile. "But he was always...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Lohengrin, with Sullivan, Steber...
...step ... I found myself reflecting on the many hundreds of hours of dancing lessons I had bought for my daughter and of the vanity of such effort. Here was a girl who could follow the most complicated mambo rhythms but couldn't keep step to Lohengrin...