Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major event in the history of opera in America has been taking place in Seattle over the past two weeks. The Seattle Opera Company presented the four operas of Wagner's Der Ring der Nibelungen in German within a week. That is the way the Ring is regularly performed at the Wagner Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, but almost never in the U.S. Then the Seattle company spun around and repeated the cycle in English. That bilingual trick is a feat that no other company in the world has equaled...
...Trend. The Seattle Ring has a predominantly young cast, with just enough veterans to glue things together. Among them is the stage director, George London, 55, one of the great Wagnerian bass-baritones of the 1950s and '60s. If London has his way, he may start a whole new realistic trend in staging the Ring. After the innovative Wieland Wagner began presenting his grandfather's works as absorbing formal abstractions at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, the imitators began falling into line. Says London: "Soon everyone was in a culdesac, with no place to go. That is when...
...London's Ring a sword is a sword, a spear is a spear, and Fafner the dragon is a proper dragon-a 35-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high beauty of a monster that requires eight stagehands to operate. London's conception is not perfect: he may not put the Valkyries on wheels, but having them cavort like chorus girls is not an improvement. There is no bear for Siegfried to tug, alas, nor does Brünnhilde ride a horse into the pyre. But she does sleep on a genuine jagged peak-not just some symbolic platform...
...with Son Charles, 13, and Stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, 29 (daughter of Writer William Saroyan), for opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Los Angeles. While Singer Tony Orlando played ringmaster, Actors Bob Newhart, Robert Mitchum, Sally Struthers and other off-duty stars paraded into center ring on elephants, all to raise money for Project Hope. "Circus performers are without guile, thoroughly professional," said Matthau after the annual charity performance. "On opening night, you never see a case of nerves or any of that temperamental nonsense so common in the rest of show business...
...keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch and a half taller than his father and has a longer reach, worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering a pro career in the ring. Promises Papa: "If he did decide to get into it, he would have the best trainers in the world. And he wouldn't have to worry about getting a fair shake...