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...gently rolling Bavarian countryside, is a rumor mill that makes Washington, D.C., look like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau scandalized the good burghers with his iconoclastic, neo-Marxist...
...Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as by the death last November of his wife of 43 years. His grief worsened five weeks ago when his trusted friend Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich died suddenly. As an aide put it, "If you're not in the mood to sing, can you sing...
What cascades of academic glitter! What fine madness of the intelligentsia! What milling and wheedling! The wonderful persons circulated and chatted, drank and staggered, consumed "dip" (whatever that may be), and the like festive routine. Sing, Muse, of this catalogue of shits...
Beverly Sills, 54, director of the New York City Opera and retired diva, on the fact that she does not sing at all now, not even in the shower: "My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used...
...BESIDES the recurring flaw the show is entertaining clever staging devices abound on the two-tiered stage connected by two staircases. The lively dance routines by Scott Collishaw are simple but attractive, enabling the actors to sing clearly without getting out of breath. The choreography enhance the variety of musical genres explored through the how as does the wide range of melodies: The jazzy "Poor Baby" sung by the five wives conveys its sultriness through excellent harmonies, and the gospel choir effect in "I'm Getting Married displays another, more refined side of the actors voices...