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...brought up to believe that it is polite to wait until you are asked," Soprano Eileen Farrell invariably replied when people wondered why she had never sung at the Met. The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing continued to ignore Farrell, either because of misplaced gallantry over her heft (5 ft. 5½ in., 180 Ibs.) or because of her limited operatic repertory. But the snub did not hinder the progress of Farrell's career or silence the critics, who acclaimed her the U.S.'s top soprano. Finally, a year ago, Bing and the Met beckoned, and last...
...Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...
...Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
...first, German audiences watch with embarrassed distaste, now snickering at the wild gesticulations of the early Hitler, now clearing throats in unison as Rudolf Hess shouts: "My Fűhrer, you are Germany. When you judge, the people judge." The shock comes with 1942, as the film moves on to footage shot by SS cameramen in the Warsaw ghetto and found by Leiser in mislabeled cans in East German archives (the Red government let him buy the ten reels for $8 a meter...
What redeemed Bayreuth's Ring was the first-rate musical performance by Conductor Rudolf Kempe and his singers, among them Birgit Nilsson, Aase Nordmo Loevberg, Hermann Uhde, Jerome Hines. While the stars bore familiar names, the surprises of the festival were provided by the talented newcomers. Among them: Berlin-born Anja Silja, 20, singing Senta in The Flying Dutchman, who first came to Bayreuth four years ago as a visiting teenager; Texas-born Thomas Stewart, 32, who was selected for the impressive role of Amfortas in Parsifal after illness forced George London to cancel; U.S. Conductor Lorin Maazel...