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...German-speaking Sexbombes are a persevering, single-minded breed. Typical of her fetching generation is Senta Berger, 23, a former student at the Max Reinhardt Institute in Vienna, who played hooky from school to do a tiny bit in The Journey with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, went on to play in The Victors, and stars with Charlton Heston in Major Dundee. Israel's Dahlia Lavi, 21, learned to dance in Sweden, has made films in France, had her first U.S. movie role in Two Weeks in Another Town, with Kirk Douglas. Lavi, who speaks English, Swedish, French, Hebrew...
...situation is similar in the movies. From Rome's Cinecitta to Hollywood, yesteryear's Latin and Anglo-Saxon actresses are being challenged by such talented Teutons as Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Nadja Tiller and Senta Berger. Eddie Fisher rebounded from Liz with the help of a Hamburger-pert, blonde Renata Boeck. Tony Curtis left Janet Leigh for dark, Munich-born Christine Kaufmann...
...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, 30, who accounted for a fine reading of Lohengrin...
...captain, Bass Giorgio Tozzi-convincingly costumed in turtleneck sweater, jacket and boots-sang with warm-timbred verve, while Tenor Karl Liebl turned in his best performance of the season as the huntsman Erik. But the real standout of a standout cast was Soprano Leonie Rysanek in the role of Senta, the self-sacrificing heroine who in characteristic Wagnerian style must die to secure the redemption of her lover. Her singing in the usually static second act was superb; her soprano rose and fell around London's steady tone, shot off in bursts of color, swooned and sighed with...
Nilsson is not only notable for her Isolde; she also sings, apparently with comparable success, Turandot, all the Brunnehildes, and Leonora and Senta (both of which she will do later in the Met season). The roles, all extremely taxing, do not tire Nilsson out. Like the famed stamina of Melchior, who missed only three performances out of the over 500 scheduled for him at the Met, Nilsson's endurance is phenomenal. She thinks nothing of singing three Isoldes in a week, a feat which she plans for later in the season. Any other soprano would request four days separating each...