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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Philips). Soprano Hildegard Behrens is a stellar Wagnerian in Leonard Bernstein's incandescent performance of the most erotic of operas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: THE BEST OF 1983: Music | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Singing her first Briinnhildes last summer in Bayreuth, she emerged as one of the dismal production's few saving graces, a Wagnerian of fiery voice and passionate temperament. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, the German soprano solidified that reputation in Tristan und Isolde, harnessing the mercurial spirit of the Irish princess to a voice of raw, almost primal urgency in a finely calibrated, carefully nuanced reading that gave flesh and blood to a mythical archetype. Says Behrens: "I want to make music in its logical context. I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Climbing the Valkyrie Rock | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...Tristan J. Weckerle, '86, said "the most annoying thing is that when my parents try to call they think I'm not in. It just makes every thing very difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Steps Up Phone Installation | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

...face of advice from her lawyer, her agent and her friends not to make Exposed, Kinski went ahead. Why? In part because in pitching the film to her, Toback played Tristan to her Isolde: "This movie is why we're alive. It is why you were born and I was born. If we die when this movie is finished it won't matter, because this is it." Nastassia seems unbothered that the resulting film looks like a Bloomingdale's window of Terrorist Chic, and that the story line functions as a metaphor for her dangerous need to be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...opera's centenary, is a deeply pessimistic view of Wagner's valedictory ode to the redemptive power of Christianity. Colored in stark blacks, whites and grays, it takes place in what appears to be a gigantic mausoleum. More radical was Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Tristan, new last year. Ponnelle has staged the last 40 minutes of the work, including Isolde's famous Liebestod, as the hallucination of the dying Tristan, who has been abandoned by his beloved. Now Bayreuth may really have seen everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Nights at Bayreuth | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

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