Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tristan und Isolde, with Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel...
Meanwhile Mrs. Barkley dropped in at the Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...
...critics liked it; one thought Mad Tristan "beautifully presented." But the Times spoke for the majority: "Regurgitation is a hygienic, not an artistic, process. Salvador Dali, turning aside from surrealistic painting to drama, has swallowed Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and spewed it up with much of the murky contents of his unconscious adhering to the gobbets...
...ballet opens in a "forest of idylls," with Tristan and Isolde dancing before an altar on which stands a love symbol: a pair of giant legs topped by a hairy mask. In Scene 2, on "the Isles of Death," Tristan first dances with an insectlike apparition, then with something dressed as a sailing ship. In the end, Tristan is destroyed by his love, as in "the tragic nuptial rites of the praying mantis, in which the female devours the male...
...love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...