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...Vickers is in no hurry to become a Heldentenor. "I love Wagner," says he, "but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten. German exploits the voice." Many of his colleagues apparently share his feeling: no truly great Heldentenor has appeared since Melchior retired (although the Hungarian Sandor Konya shows high promise...
...Latin American rump-shaker. Vocally, she is not yet a hundred per cent effective; but she gets a good deal out of her monumental styganoric narrative. And what she does with the simple epithet "slut" has to be heard to be believed. In all, an impressive performance. Opposite her, Sandor Szabo does admirably in the largely passive role of the Commodore who is a potential successor to dad-in-the-closet...
AMERICAN COMMISSAR (477 pp.)-Sandor Voros-Chilton...
...Sandor Voros, a Hungarian-born, American ex-Communist, adds nothing but corroboration to their impressive testimony; indeed, if his book has a place in anti-Communist literature, it comes from the fact that basically he was a very ordinary fellow. Not philosophical revulsion or a moral crisis, but outraged innocence was his ticket of leave from the party, and he writes in appropriate style, rather like an Eagle Scout who discovered that the fix was on at national headquarters...
...production's cast was youthful and predominantly non-German: Hungary's Sandor Konya as Lohengrin, Austria's Leonie Rysanek as Elsa, France's Ernest Blanc as Telramund, the U.S.'s Astrid Varnay as Ortrud, and Keith Engen, who sang King Heinrich (wearing his 1944 University of California class ring). While the principals were vocally uninspired, the chorus was in splendid form-despite severe hardships. Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily...