Word: tenoritis
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Following Mr. Gandhi came a rabble of marchers, many of them as reedy looking as the Mahatma, all stepping briskly to the stirring air which Mr. Constable Sean O'Rourke was now bellowing in a rich Dublin tenor...
Bayreuth, located 41 miles northeast of Nuremberg in the gently rolling Bavarian countryside, is a rumor mill that makes Washington, D.C., look like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau...
Still, there were a few bright spots amid the prevailing gloom. Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegmund) and American Soprano Jeannine Altmeyer (Sieglinde) made a hot-blooded pair of incestuous lovers in Die Walküre, and Baritone Hermann Becht's Alberich was powerfully sung. Hildegard Behrens unleashed her blazing, radiant soprano as Brünnhilde, the fallen Valkyrie whose ultimate sacrifice defeats Alberich's evil and purifies the world for the coming new order...
Albrecht's strained tenor can communicate emotion well, but its one-dimensionally becomes painful when he has less than enthralling things...
What deters most from the complete success of this production is the orchestra. Through extremely well coordinated it frequently overpowers the actors, most distressingly Jones and Glaser: the stage is too small for such orchestral volume, Jones has a fine tenor voice but we miss too many words when the orchestra blares out especially in the show's witty title song. Glaser whose Marta is self effacingly comic gets drowned out in perhaps the show's most beautiful song. "Another Hundred People," which describe the anonymity of New York City life...