Word: maria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARIA V. FLOSS...
...quarter-century he was in constant demand in the world's great opera halls, sharing the stage with such stellar Wagnerian sopranos as Kirsten Flagstad, Frida Leider, Maria Miüller and Helen Traubel. Despite his rigorous schedule, Melchior never canceled a performance, something of a landmark for temperamental opera stars. Once while he was in Götterdämmerung he developed a swollen polyp that choked him; he found that by holding his head to one side he could sing-and sing he did for three hours...
...film again the same evening, and on second viewing it was -- like any complex film -- even more alive, more intense, more involving. Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider lead compressed lives -- lives that burn out almost in an instant. Brando's scream in the film's brilliant opening scene declares an existential wound -- later filled, if only for an instant, by Brando and Schneider's sudden and passionate coming together. During their short-lived ecstasy, Brando declares that "everything outside of this place is bullshit...
...Paul's Church is the perfect place for an all-Josquin program. The Glee Club and Collegium will be doing the Missa Mater Patris; Abasalon, Fili Mi; Misse Pange Lingua, and Ave Maria. Well worth the time for those in sympathy with early choral music. --K.T.H...
...usual, Bergman includes references to his own previous works--e.g., Maria and her husband plan to visit the Egermans, the eminently bourgeois family of Passion of Anna. Also to be expected are the wonderful Sven Nykvist photography, the clever color design (red for lust and guilt, white for innocence, black for death) and the impeccable performances. But Bergman's characteristic flaws are present as well. Occasionally, a scene becomes annoyingly stylized: Karin looks at that piece of glass for what seems like a full five minutes, and the talk in which she and Maria finally commit themselves is smothered...