Word: nibelungen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants it-cut and trimmed to make a comfortable afternoon or evening. But many an operagoer has been dissatisfied with the cuts and the production in general. Hence with enthusiasm last week they hailed the coming of the German Grand Opera Company* which promised two complete cycles of the Nibelungen Ring, uncut, and a Tristan with Johanna Gadski. Manager George Blumenthal has brought singers from Germany, also a German chef who prepares German food for intermissions...
...from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...above, and Louis Barthou, who has just written a biography,* view the same aspect of Richard Wagner. Both see his crude love-affairs as inherent, important surfaces of his genius rather than detached experiences remote from the mind which was capable of Tristan und Isolde, Der Ring des Nibelungen...
...symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Ludwig of Bavaria gazed on that pageant with vacuous wondering eye. He was no fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner's exile canceled, would give him a house. Soon the rotund, drab little man grubbed with filthy hands...
...Siegfried, murdered, burned on a giant pyre, Brünnhilde with him; Walhalla flamed red in the sky and, greed punished, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph Laubenthal, bountifully bewigged, an uninspired Siegfried. Critics reveled...