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...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...
...GINE CRESPIN (Angel). Soprano Crespin has the distinction of being both the finest operatic voice of France and one of opera's leading Wagnerians. Here she sings arias from Tannhüiuser together with Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, Rossini's William Tell and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, and seems equally at home in all four styles and all three languages...
...until she took the $1,000 in prize money she won as Metropolitan Opera Auditions finalist and departed in 1959 for Europe. There she got opera engagements in Paris, Brussels and Basel, last summer became the first Negro ever to sing at the Bayreuth Festival -as Venus in Tannhäuser (TIME...
Cultural Crime? Bumbry's debut was less important than those of Dalis and Thomas in Parsifal or of radiant Spanish Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles in Tannhäuser. But her engagement received far more than its share of attention after the Wagner brothers were bombarded with letters suggesting that the assignment of a Negro to the role of Venus was a "cultural crime" against the obvious wishes of Wagner himself. Wieland remained unmoved: "I shall bring in black, yellow and brown artists if I feel them appropriate for productions. I require no ideal Nordic specimens...