Word: siegmunds
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...most imposing Wotan in the business. Since there are few good Wotans around now and since Tyl has a rich Heldenbariton, he seems to have a bright future. As Brünnhilde, Norway's Ingrid Bjoner sings the music with yearning and power. Germany's Herbert Becker (Siegmund and Siegfried) is not the most passionate Heldentenor around, but he sings all the music-and that in itself is no small achievement-with taste and control. The character parts are well cast, particularly the dwarfs Alberich and Mime (Malcolm Rivers and Paul Crook) and the scheming Hagen (William Wildermann...
...cast-with Becker replaced by California's Claude Heater as Siegmund and New York's James McCray as Siegfried, and Bjoner by England's Anna Green-did not seem overly happy about the English. One would think that an American would love the idea. Not so. Says Tyl, one of several singers who appeared in both versions: "Any American who has learned a role in German has two tapes going in his mind-the original and the English he thinks by. When you throw in a third tape [the Porter], man, you've got trouble...
...back" to Sieglinde's gentler music. Like some fabulous Ring character, Nilsson is a kind of vocal amphibian who can exist in both past and present. At times there was an eerie suggestion that one was hearing the young Nilsson. In the famous first-act duet with Siegmund (Jon Vickers), she was translucid as a lover, exalted on learning that he is also her lost twin. Nilsson never makes a meaningless gesture. She touched Siegmund almost at once-tentative, exploring-like an emotionally blinded woman. After the first act there are no more visions of a laughing house...
...Last week the unlucky lady was Berit Lindholm, a well-known Brunnhilde in Europe making her Met debut. She turned out to be a slim, handsome woman with a thrilling mezzo register, but this did not help her with much of Brunnhilde's important music. Vickers sang Siegmund with wrenching intensity, which worked fine with Nilsson. But in the searing confrontation with Brunnhilde he was dramatically undermatched...
...former panzer officer with a doctorate in law, Krackow has worked for the Commerzbank, one of Germany's Big Three, and for British Investment Banker Siegmund Warburg. After shifting into industry, he became a successful doctor of ailing companies. Vogelsang recruited him four years ago to take charge of Krupp's weakest branch, its money-losing shipbuilding subsidiary, A.G. Weser. Under Krackow's management, the number of man-hours needed to produce a supertanker was cut by one-third, and Weser swung round from a loss of $8.5 million in 1968 to a profit of $4.7 million...