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Wagner used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long...
...last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini abruptly stilled the applause which followed a Smetana symphonic poem, tapped on a cellist's stand for attention and, instead of two trifling Mendelssohn pieces listed on the program, played with his Philharmonic-Symphony the tremendous, soaring funeral march from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. In Philadelphia, St. Louis, Berlin and a score more music centres, were similar scenes and sounds, a world-wide requiem by Wagner...
Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals...
Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
...designer of scenery and costumes for the Munich opera) and intelligence (she speaks many languages fluently). But Manhattan last week was unwilling to give her unqualified approval on a single hearing. Critics confessed themselves swayed by her fine flair for the stage, conceded that the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde is the most taxing role in all grand opera. But her voice they found to spread unpleasantly, to be piercing in the upper register. Its colors were not deep enough, some said, to suggest a woman given to great love, revenge, final understanding...