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Wagnerian Supermen. For a "searching fee" that averages about $50, buxom Frau Paech and other professional Cupid chasers will methodically remake the whimsical old game according to cold Teutonic logic. Clients are interviewed for the necessary information-background, interests, social status, financial situation -and brought together through carefully matched briefing...
Mr. George Riddle--is it by direct interposition of Divine Providence, or, more likely, of Pallas Athene?--the distinguished actor who first made his reputation as Oedipus Rex, which he played in the Greek of Sophocles at Sanders Theatre in 1881, a nationally notable event, and now retired from the...
To Be a Prophet. Maazel was soon in aly, plotting his comeback. "I took a long, cool look at conducting," he says Of course I liked the power and prestige being a conductor- but did I really have anything to say?" After deciding that he did, he began to build...
Der Spiegel was created in 1947 as a publication loosely patterned after TIME, but it soon changed into a Teutonic version of Confidential magazine. Editorially, it stood against almost everything and for almost nothing-except, perhaps, recognition of East Germany, which it has frequently proposed. Never particularly friendly to the...
Caustic Caricature. Meistersinger was wholly different, from the very first notes of the theme of the mastersingers-the guild of vocalists in 16th century Nürnberg that the opera celebrates. Because Meistersinger, Wagner's only attempt at comedy, deals entirely with real people and with none of the...