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Bayreuth, located 41 miles northeast of Nuremberg in the gently rolling Bavarian countryside, is a rumor mill that makes Washington, D.C., look like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau...
Whitney's Cafe (37 JFK St.): The only place in the Square to get a Rheingold on tap, if that is a plus. As high as the odds are that you'll go to the Kong at least once the odds are ever larger that you will never enter Whitney's. The night bartender, Joe, laments the fact that more students don't visit what many believe to be Harvard Square's only real working class bar He attributes the absence of "youngsters," somewhat mysteriously to the Vietnam...
...sales: $3 billion) likes to bask in high-wattage limelight. He poses for profiles in magazines like Vogue and Success and appears in TV commercials for his Avis rent-a-car subsidiary. At his black-tie 60th birthday party last month, he and his wife Hillie, a former Miss Rheingold, played host to dozens of famous friends, including Estée Lauder, Alan King and Henry Kissinger...
...through hell for him." The Chicago spirit is evident both in music of the classical period, like Mozart's, and in the great romantic works: Mahler and Bruckner symphonies and Strauss tone poems. Last week's dazzling performance under Solti of Wagner's complete opera Das Rheingold matched an orchestra at the top of its form with a conductor at the height of his interpretive prowess...
...heavily symbolic interpretation that, among other extraordinary devices, uses the composer's own face as a set. French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau's complete The Ring of the Nibelung (starting Jan. 17 on PBS with a documentary and continuing a week later with Das Rheingold) is a brash, iconoclastic view that sets the four-opera cycle in the mid-19th century, when Wagner wrote it. The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeeds triumphantly, while Parsifal a spectacular failure...