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...five-hour Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the sequence. Several of the Ring's most appealing characters are introduced, including the doomed incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Brunnhilde, the warrior maiden whose sympathetic heart causes her to be stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire...
After resting on the ocean floor, split asunder and rusting, for nearly three- quarters of a century, a great ship seemed to come alive again. The saga of the White Star liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passengers to their deaths, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song. But last week what had been legendary suddenly became real. As they viewed videotapes and photographs of the sunken leviathan, millions of people around the world could sense her mass, her eerie quiet...
...actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland's Measure for Measure turn the chaste novice nun Isabella into a marriage-minded maiden, winking at having got her man, as New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp did last summer in Central Park. The result is that Ashland's interpretations are rarely revelatory -- but just as rarely misguided...
...some of the eerie images that emerged last week as a camera- equipped robot wandered through the Titanic, the first visitor to enter the "unsinkable" ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September some 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland and 13,000 ft. beneath the surface, and returned last week to explore...
...ship sunk early on the morning of April 15, 1912, hours after hitting an iceberg while on its maiden voyage from England. Of those aboard, 1,513 passengers and crew were killed. The 704 survivors were mainly women and children who had been put aboard lifeboats...