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...grandsons were at it again. Last year they shocked old-line Wagnerites by ditching the old three-dimensional scenery, stripping heroines of their winged helmets, and generally flouting sacred traditions. Last week, continuing to modernize grandfather, they opened the second postwar season at Bayreuth with a streamlined version of Tristan and Isolde...
...sets contained a minimum of props. Act I was furnished with a single couch for Isolde (not a sign of the usual sail or sailors); there was no castle in Act II and none of the customary trees in Act III. The stage sloped so steeply that Tristan on his couch almost seemed in danger of rolling into the orchestra...
Said Wieland: "I want to concentrate on the persons." His other general idea was to avoid the style of a 19th century romantic love story and display Tristan as the "erotic mystery" he thinks "the old man" meant...
...said A.B.C., resembles a Crucifixion by the 81-year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring's 19th century favorite, Pharaoh's Horses. A.B.C. captioned its story "Three Coincidences," and let its readers judge for themselves...
Letters have been coming to her from friends and complete strangers, coast to coast: "Please don't overdo before the 22nd"-the date of her return this week in her most famous role, Isolde, in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. "Please take care of yourself so you will be in good voice," wrote another. "We have waited so long, and you must not let us down...