Word: mmerung
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What's perhaps most striking about Downfall is how profoundly everyone in the bunker loves death. Hitler, naturally, thinks the Germans have betrayed him and is willing to let them all die in a great Götterdämmerung while he passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to the most horrifying sequence in the film: Magda Goebbels, wife of the notorious Propaganda Minister, poisoning all six of her children because she does not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism. This act, a blend of romantic and ideological fervor, is almost unbearable to witness...
...opera's weaknesses outweigh its strengths. They include awkwardly leaping, ungrateful vocal lines, a wearisome tendency to have everything sung fortissimo, an ultimate sameness of musical vocabulary, and a dramatic shift at the end from an 18th century moral object lesson to a Götterdämmerung of destruction that occurs on "the last day of the earth." Nor was the Boston performance much help. The work was slackly conducted and indifferently staged by Caldwell and only sporadically well sung, principally by Morgan, Hunter and Freni, and John Brandstetter as one of Marie's military lovers...
...request from a home-town girl," says Delaney. "I had an interview with the president of Case the next afternoon." Correspondent Christopher Redman visited the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to discuss arts-funding cuts and came upon it rehearsing excerpts from Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). Says Redman: "The music seemed painfully appropriate...
...French-built nuclear energy facility just outside the city and industrial targets in the suburbs. One direct hit, in particular, on petroleum storage tanks next to a power station, caused a huge fire that turned Baghdad's blackout into a stage setting for Götterdämmerung. The minarets and distinctive egg-shaped domes of the city's mosques were silhouetted against a sky that glowed deep crimson all night long...
...facts to what is already known about the period, the diaries, covering Feb. 27 through April 9, convey a sharp sense of immediacy and give West Germans an intimate glimpse of how one of the brutal regime's leaders viewed the Nazi Götterdämmerung...