Word: lohengrins
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...third season-which was only reasonable for a man who wanted time to write more operas. Under no such pressure, the composer's grandsons, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner,* last week shattered another hallowed Bayreuth custom, opened their third Wagner Festival in three years with a new production of Lohengrin...
Again they swept the big stage clear of musty traditions (TIME, Aug. 4), but the innovations started fewer quarrels among old Wagnerites. Produced this time by younger brother Wolfgang, 34, who heretofore has concentrated on the business side of Bayreuth, the new Lohengrin stressed simple sets and alternate lighting effects of dazzle and darkness (Richard Wagner himself was limited to gaslamp effects). The new Bayreuth also dispensed with helmets and beards, soft-pedaled grand operatic gesticulation, and permitted cast and producers to take mundane curtain calls when it was all over...
...Lohengrin was ably conducted by Hamburg's Josef Keilberth, and Vienna's Klemens Krauss led Parsifal the next night...
...Metropolitan Opera stars were the center of attention in the opening-night Lohengrin. The part of Elsa was splendidly sung by Eleanor Steber, in her first German-language appearance in Germany; Astrid Varnay turned in a solid performance as Ortrud. Some critics said it was the best Lohengrin they could remember. Two 'other Met stars scored in the Parsifal: George London as Amfortas and Chile's Ramon Vinay as a slightly Latinate Parsifal...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lohengrin, with Sullivan, Steber, Harshaw, Sigurd Bjoerling...