Word: maria
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...interpret. But Karl Richter, an organist and harpsichordist as well as conductor, creates a performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir...
Aromatic Inhalation. There is no such thing as a distinctive Merrill style. His recent production of Der Rosenkavalier was presented realistically, with sets, costumes and actions designed so that the audience could "feel a good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten...
...Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence with which she is surrounded or Leonardo's decidedly ambivalent attitude toward women. More recently, Miro, Magritte, Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Arman, Bruce Nauman and Walter de Maria have in various ways dealt memorably with the subject...
...PIETRO MARIA BARDI Director...
Small wonder Rudolf is driven into the arms of a regal young noblewoman named Maria (Catherine Deneuve). The empassioned lovers flee to Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods, where they eventually commit joint suicide. Before he leaves, Rudolf resigns his princely inheritance by throwing his ring in the Emperor's face. Line: "So much for your Holy Roman Empire...