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Wagner's heavy oil is what makes the wheels of the Met go round. Of the Met's eight most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home...
...continues to sell out. There are still some who prefer Flagstad's glacial perfection to Traubel's warmer but more uneven performances. Traubel's singing, being more emotional, generally improves as the evening goes on; she is at her best in the great third act of 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...
...Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting. In the month since he spoke, BBC has aired, between the hours of 6 and 12 every night, such works as Shaw's Man and Superman (four hours), Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (four hours), Bach's Art of Fugue, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, a psychology lecture by Sir Cyril Burt. a critical appraisal of U.S. novelist Henry James. Coming attractions: all Mozart's violin concertos, all Beethoven's piano sonatas, Goethe's Faust, a dramatization of Melville...
...M.R.P.'s Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen, a legendary figure (known as "Tristan") in the Resistance, put the anti-Red case in even more fundamental terms: "Between us and materialist Communism there is no possibility of any sort of a pact...