Word: lohengrins
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...weight lifter and lineman on the Wesleyan University football team, Cochran once wanted to become a minister. But singing in the Wesleyan Glee Club eventually diverted him to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Already a veteran of concert engagements and small roles at the Metropolitan Opera, his selections from Lohengrin and Walkure displayed massive power and a brilliantly glossy upper register. Every day, Cochran runs a mile and works out to preserve such Heldentenor traits as his 52-in. chest. "My ambition," he says, "is to be able to keep on singing until...
...legend he shared. Upon his accession to the throne, he summoned Wagner from Stuttgart, installed him in a Munich suburban house, bankrolled the first productions of his most famous operas. Atop the Munich Residence he built a huge greenhouse with a lily pond. Floating in a barge clad as Lohengrin, he watched slides of the Venusberg cast on the walls by a projector, while a hidden orchestra played Tannhäuser. Though World War II bombs shattered the greenhouse, the red-cushioned barge has been reinstalled on a blue-lit lake of mirror...
BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production by Wolfgang Wagner of Die Meistersinger under Karl Böhm's baton, a Ring cycle conducted by Lorin Maazel, Parsifal under Pierre Boulez's musical direction, plus a Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde...
Once home, Charlie finds his wife itchy and bitchy, his little boy unteachable and unreachable. Miserably, he wanders into a mythically peaceful and green meadow near by. There, a huge red-and-yellow ascension balloon sits waiting, like the swan boat in Lohengrin. He clambers aboard and cuts the ropes, borne free to oblivion...
Last Straw. All this inspired Der Spiegel to sound a warning blast about Bayreuth's future. Bad enough, said the article, that Wolfgang's production was cluttered, unimaginative and-worst of all-harmless. In his very staging of Lohengrin, the magazine saw signs of an alleged return to the bad old Nazi days. The presence at rehearsals of Mama Wagner, now 73, was the last straw...