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...PASSION OF JONATHAN WADE. One of the few masters of American opera (Susannah), Carlisle Floyd sets his tragedy in Columbia, S.C., just after the Civil War at the savage start of Reconstruction. Sets by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen. At the Houston Grand Opera...
...they could be sold today as luxury condominiums. Eisenstein's residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes to grandeur, Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's magnum of a production has popped its cork...
...Herbert von Karajan, which began in 1967 with Die Walkure. Karajan had produced only half of the cycle when a labor dispute disrupted the 1969-70 season and he dropped out; the Ring was completed several years later by Director Wolfgang Weber. This current production, designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk, is being introduced over three seasons, and will be staged complete...
...production is conservative, which is not surprising. Allegorical reinterpretation, the rage in Europe, strikes no sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails. Schenk and Schneider- Siemssen staged the Met's highly regarded 1977 Tannhauser, a glowing, romantic evocation of the Thuringian countryside, with a sharp eye for naturalistic detail, and their Die Walkure is in the same tradition. Hunding's rude hut in Act I is an enormous wooden lodge, with an imposing tree growing in its center, while the landscapes of Acts II and III are rocky and forbidding. They are not so much sets...
...workshop, is obviously a machine, and in a fine, broad comic touch, Director Schenk has the inventor's assistant twist each of her fingers to produce the dazzling coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy palazzi looming over dark canals whose waters hold untold secrets. The intensity deepens and comes to a climax in the third act: as in a horror movie, the normality of Antonia's surroundings only heightens the terror prescribed...