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...brash, confident Wotan of Das Rheingold and Die Walkure, the splendid American bass James Morris served notice that he will be a Teutonic god of vocal power and majesty for years to come. Proud, haughty and resolutely amoral, Morris dominated the drama as he must to give depth to the tragedy that is, ultimately, Wotan's doing. Equally impressive was the Hungarian-born soprano Eva Marton, a legitimate contender for the mantle of Birgit Nilsson with impassioned performances of Brunnhilde in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Awakened by Siegfried on the Valkyrie rock, Marton sang Brunnhilde's Heil dir, Sonne greeting...
Dartmouth opened the scoring at 6:37 of the first period, when Laurie Rheingold took a Nancy Toland feed and fired the puck past Crimson goalie Tracy Kimmel...
...artistic engineering projects in history, needs strong, consistent guidance if a production is not to degenerate into a series of pretty stage pictures. Characters must be sharply focused, their complex relationships made clear. They cannot be allowed to wander aimlessly across the stage, as Hall lets them do in Rheingold, or strike arbitrary, stylized postures: Wotan singing to Brünnhilde while lying flat on his back in Die Walküre, for example...
Some of the settings are indeed pretty, like the opening tableau of Das Rheingold, in which three nude Rhinemaidens swim in a pool of water, reflected vertically by means of mirrors so that it appears they are frolicking in a deep river. But there are inexplicable departures from the prevailing neoRomantic ethos, born of the director's fascination with stage gadgetry. For the Ride of the Valkyries in Die Walküre, Hall straps four warrior maidens to a slowly descending platform, while beneath them their sisters prepare the naked bodies of dead heroes for consignment to Valhalla. This...
Some of the singing, too, came in for heavy criticism. Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern has a rich resonant voice but brought little sense of Wotan's majestic agony to his portrayal. After Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, he canceled his appearance in Siegfried and was replaced by a weak Bent Norup. Poor Manfred Jung, the substitute Siegfried, is physically unprepossessing and vocally inadequate to this most heroic of heldentenor roles, which demands both strength and stamina. Although he gave it a game effort, especially in Götterdammerung, Jung put one in mind of Scholar-Critic Ernest...