Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tristan and Isolde Through the Middle Ages: music based on the legend, BU Concert Hall, Friday...
...Brilliant Career) might seem to make a good protofeminist match, but the results are dour and disappointing. The film's strongest suit--Russell Boyd's sepulchrally seductive cinematography--ironicall y seals its doom. Mrs. Soffel (rhymes with woeful) is Bonnie and Clyde with the emotional lights turned down, Tristan und Isolde without the saving soaring music...
Since the death of Wolfgang Windgassen in 1974, Wagnerites have bewailed the dearth of stalwart voices to tackle parts like Lohengrin, Tristan and Siegfried. Although he has said that he would some day like to sing Parsifal and perhaps Tristan, Domingo's natural territory is the lyric roles of Italian and French opera. It is too much to expect him to become a true Heldentenor: he lacks the sheer force to surge over Wagner's complex orchestral writing, his German diction is heavily Latinized, and his phrasing belongs to the Mediterranean, not the Teutonic, school...
...producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
Finale: Maestoso. New York, Carnegie Hall. Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde begin at the very edge of audibility. Celibidache's pianissimi are courageous, and in them, Eros stretches provocatively. Each intense, chromatic line is achingly detailed, and when the climax of the Love-Death is reached, the effect is shattering. "Music," says Celibidache, "is a meditation. When it is transcendent, it is as transcendental as a prayer." In the concluding Scythian Suite, Celibidache unleashes Prokofiev's panoply of barbaric orchestral splendor...