Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal and tenderly deposited beside her dying lover...
Many operagoers found these arrangements much more pleasing than the traditional muscle-bound Wagnerian posturing. They reflected that the visual aspects of opera are secondary at best. Said the Metropolitan's stage director Herbert Graf: "One thing Miss Lawrence has showed us is how many gestures usual with opera singers are unnecessary and, in general, can be dispensed with...
China's six-year-old war with Japan this week was at its gravest stage since the retreat from Burma a year ago. North of Changsha the Jap had opened a new, three-pronged drive with 50,000 men. Behind this offensive might be a plan to drive toward Chungking...
From Italy onetime Metropolitan Opera Tenor Tito Schipa, 53, arrived suddenly in Lisbon. He explained: "Only those who have experienced the sensation of stage fright can judge how one feels when bombs are exploding just a little...
...glass eggs ... It's been three weeks now and still no results ... Some farmer told me it takes four however ... so here's hopin ... Papa duck hasn't been seen by the j. g. of B23 lately ... We hope he isn't two timing Mabel at this critical stage...