Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew what to expect. In Milan last week 200 plainclothesmen were sprinkled through the audience in famed La Scala opera house, and outside, strong police squads stood ready. There had been hints of trouble. The former chief of staff of the Milanese partisan organization demanded that the performance of Tristan und Isolde be canceled. He objected not to Soprano Flagstad's much-criticized war reputation-but to the fact that the opera would be sung in German...
...cared that Kirsten Flagstad was a great singer. Some of them had heard her at first with reticence and then with applause in postwar concerts at Cannes, Paris and London. Many more of the same kind of folk were on hand at La Scala when the first notes of Tristan und Isolde sighed from the orchestra...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Helen Traubel as Isolde, Set Svanholm in his: U.S. debut as Tristan...
...Falstaffian. In Die Walküre, when Traubel is left alone on stage, Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...