Word: straussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything about mid-19th century Vienna was larger than life, from the caloric content of the pastries at Demel to the Emperor Franz Josef's mustaches. For its new Die Fledermaus, televised by PBS on New Year's Eve, the Metropolitan Opera has constructed outsize rooms in Johann Strauss's idealized waltzing city with such vivid realism that 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...
Musically, the performance is just as diffident. No matter how often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Deaver arranged the meeting in the White House family quarters Dec. 4 between Reagan and his wife, Nancy, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert S. Strauss and former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, to discuss the widening crisis...
...painting was recovered Thursday night at 11:30 p.m. in the Strauss D-entryway. Wednesday night two other paintings in the set had been left in Thayer South for the artists to pick...
...caller told Rhinelander that the painting would be in Strauss Hall, so she contacted the other artist Ethan Johnson '84, who sent two friends to Strauss D-entry late Thursday night to pick up the mural...