Word: mmerung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote the film, and G. W. Pabst, who directed it, have had the good taste to realize that a man who caused the deaths of millions is nothing to be laughed at. Yet neither is the Führer granted the Götterdämmerung he sought to stage...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Die Götterdämmerung...
There was opera, too. Vienna had its operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there...
...story. In one scene Frontierswoman Crawford, dressed to the nines in a Paris gown, sits down to a grand piano in a mat-red grotto lit by candelabra, and plunks .away like a cowtown Liberace while the posse thunders toward a sort of sagebrush Götterdämmerung...
...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...