Word: tannh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball cap. Papa is a fat slob in unbuttoned pajamas, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in experimental theater. Mama reminisces over an early tussle for bohemian freedom in which she and Papa made love in the front row of the orchestra during a performance of Tannhäuser. Currently, she sleeps with a grinning Neanderthal manservant named Eddie, while Papa affects not to notice...
...suburban house, bankrolled the first productions of his most famous operas. Atop the Munich Residence he built a huge greenhouse with a lily pond. Floating in a barge clad as Lohengrin, he watched slides of the Venusberg cast on the walls by a projector, while a hidden orchestra played Tannhäuser. Though World War II bombs shattered the greenhouse, the red-cushioned barge has been reinstalled on a blue-lit lake of mirror...
Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
...certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos and The Damnation of Faust. After the first two years, critics were heralding...
...JART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared another. It was no surprise that Paris greeted one of the freshest and most imaginative productions that the Opéra has had in years with the most furious scandal since Wagner brought Tannhäuser to town...