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...unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...
...latest Bayreuth style came into full bloom in 1976 with the centennial production of the Ring cycle, staged by the French enfant terrible Patrice Chreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Using such anachronisms as the Rhine Maidens playing near a hydroelectric dam, Chéreau fashioned an allegory of the industrial revolution from Wagner's mythic tale of greed and its consequences. A vivid mixture of naturalistic detail and wild flights of imaginative fancy, the Chéreau Ring set the tone for what followed...
Leaders of the peace movement showed that they had been listening too when they convened an antinuclear rally the next day. At least 200,000 people from all parts of West Germany poured into the Beuel section of Bonn, across the Rhine from the windowless conference chamber where Reagan was attending a summit meeting of the NATO countries. A widely distributed leaflet for the rally was strongly anti-American and anti-NATO; one placard read HEIL, RONALD REAGAN. But the mood of the crowd was as much pacifist as anti-Reagan, and unexpectedly relaxed. Said retired Dutch General...
...travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone of such rallies may be somewhat muted by Reagan's Eureka proposal. In Paris, the centrist daily Le Monde said Reagan was asking the Soviets to make most...
This is a time of startling directorial innovations in opera. Patrice Chéreau's controversial Bayreuth staging of Wagner's Ring cycle (1976) featured Rhine maidens frolicking near a hydroelectric dam and Siegfried wearing a dinner jacket. But what Brook has done goes beyond accepted notions of radicalism. Essentially, he has recomposed Bizet's masterpiece, discarding whole sequences, changing the order of arias, even putting the overture near the end. The implicit arrogance of all this does not trouble Brook. "Opera is not a musical contract on paper, something between attorneys," he says. "The whole essence...