Word: schwarzkopf
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...completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse, he retires to England and an armchair. Hildegarde, having conquered all Europe with her magic voice (dubbed in by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), now appears at London's Covent Garden. Morgan rushes to the concert, pits his plain brain and pure heart against the hypnotic evil of Svengali. Love, eventually, conquers all, and Svengali dies, apparently of mortification...
...patting itself on the back for having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
...Soprano Schwarzkopf's U.S. debut had been delayed until she was 37, and her first visit was limited to a single recital. One reason went back to prewar Germany: in 1935, as a 19-year-old music student in Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, she became a leader in the Nazi Studentenbund. Thereafter her career blossomed; throughout the war she was a favorite of German audiences. Eventually, after the blanket denazifications of 1946, she returned to the musical stage in Vienna...
...Manhattan last week, Soprano Schwarzkopf was aware that political as well as musical scuttlebutt travels along the international grapevine, and was uneasy about her reception. "I know what people think they know," she said. "Seventy-five percent of the audience is for me; the other 25 percent wishes I were dead." But there was no demonstration, no picket line; nobody asked her about the old days in the Third Reich. Her managers were scheduling her for a return visit to the U.S. next fall for a two-month tour...