Word: mmerung
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...half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets of strawberries, nougat (for roads), sugar and tartar (for snow...
...four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung the three-volume role of Brünnhilde (Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) right through in successive performances...
...Marjorie Lawrence, once the most glamorous of Metropolitan Sieglindes and Brünnhildes. She had made her last exit from that stage mounted on a bay charger at the close of Wagner's Götterdämmerung on March 22, 1941. Since then Marjorie Lawrence had been fighting a battle few thought she could win. Her antagonist: infantile paralysis...
Beside the Götterdämmerung thunders of the Russo-German War, the 80-hour campaign to achieve all these desirable things sounded like the popping of a little corn. Down either side the Caspian came the Cossacks-horsed, mechanized and propellered. Their western column rapidly took Tabriz; their eastern the port of Bandar Shah (see map). To the south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week ended its season with a performance of Wagner's Die Götterdämmerung, in which even Brünnhilde's horse joined in the singing, with off-pitch whinnies. For Manhattan can take grand opera for only 16 weeks at a time...