Word: straussed
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...kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th century and includes Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. It has been called an "El Dorado for premieres," and so it was: among the operas first performed there are Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. Symbolically, the resurrected Semper Opera opened with Weber's Der Freischutz, the last work heard in the hall before it closed in 1944 to await the violent, cataclysmic end of the Third Reich...
Public health officials sought to quell the growing panic. "The parents were concerned that their children would get some horrible, disfiguring disease," says Dr. Steven Strauss, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least...
...exceptions, she sang only parts suited to her voice and physique. She never sang those consumptive lost souls Mimi in La Boheme and Violetta in La Traviata, accurately observing, "I'm just too healthy for coughing spells." Although she toyed with the idea of tackling the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, she rightly realized that "Verdi is definitely my friend...
...RICHARD STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (Deutsche Grammophon). Herbert von Karajan leads a sterling silver cast in Strauss's nostalgic Viennese nosegay...
...Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading of Schumann's underrated Symphony No. 2 was one of the highlights of the orchestra's tour, and Dohnányi's authoritative interpretation of Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra restored all the familiar work's thrilling majesty...