Word: mmerung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though, is its cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles...
...high Cs that Flagstad was unable to hit in Tristan und Isolde, Flagstad could not be lured before a microphone for nearly two years. But since then she has signed up with London Records, made 23 LPs, including a complete Götter-dämmerung, lieder by Richard Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Hugo Wolf. The latest : an excellent third act of Die Walk...
...Opera's Rudolf Bing is a fastidious Viennese who has little use for the Teutonic excesses of Richard Wagner. But this season he bravely buckled down to putting on Wagner's complete 15-hour Ring cycle (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) for the first time in six years. Somewhat to Bing's surprise, it was a smash hit. The Wagner-starved public queued up for tickets: "It was as if Callas were singing Lucia''' Result: the Met decided to follow up the two scheduled Rings with...
...modernists, he said simply, is "not music for me." He was never notably a pioneer, though he introduced some of the music of his contemporaries (Pagliacci in 1892, La Bohème in 1896, the first performances in Italy of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Siegfried). His abiding interest was "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters." For the majority of musicians, music lovers and critics the world over, he came closer to realizing the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi than any conductor ever did. No conductor...
...plane plummeted to earth there was nothing left to bury. An aging father comes to visit his son only to find that he is missing on a long-overdue mission. As for the flyers, they are overwhelmed by no vision of their Führer's "Gotterdämmerung," just a nagging sense of failure ("They meant to defend a Thermopylae, but there was no Thermopylae to defend"). Himself a fighter pilot in World War II, Gerd Gaiser puts a peculiar mystique about Hitler in the mouth of one of his characters: "God has sent...