Word: mmerung
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Some professionals thought that he was lacking in technique, and he was often accused of disdaining a regular beat. To a lady who implored him to use a score for a performance of Götterdämmerung, the better to follow the opera's "rhythmical changes," he replied serenely: "There are no rhythmical changes in Götterdämmerung, my dear Emerald. It goes on from half-past 5 till midnight like a damned old cart horse...
...Western Union messenger-three years ago to become a playwright. His first effort, The Zoo Story, an affecting work about the failure of communication between a lonely outcast and a smug square, had its première in Berlin, where it was hailed as "the Götterdämmerung of the gutter." Albee has since turned out four more one-act works, is currently working up from one-acters toward full-length drama by writing a two-act play that seems unlikely ever to appear on a midtown marquee. Its title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...Depression-ridden 1930s, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera faced what Critic Irving Kolodin referred to as the "Operdämmerung": the house was half empty night after night, much of the gold had drained out of the golden horseshoe, and management was not sure from one month to the next whether the curtain would rise again. What saved the Met more than anything else was Mrs. August Belmont's idea for replacing the top hats and tiaras with an auxiliary known as the Metropolitan Opera Guild. In the 25 years since then the guild has grown into the nation...
...approach. Such massive evil can scarcely be conveyed by facts, figures and chronology. What is needed is another Dante with a genius for portraying hell, or a new Wagner who can translate horror into myth and spell out the dread meanings in a Götterdämmerung finale. Surrealist imagination, not research, may one day tell the definitive story; in the meantime, there are books...
...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...