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Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals...
Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
Wagner's Götterdämmerung begins with three Norns darkly spinning the fates which are to enmesh the erring gods. Light breaks when their prophecy is told. The swaggering Siegfried enters and after him Brünnhilde in the full ecstasy of love. This moment, important in any performance of Götterdämmerung, was doubly significant last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for Brünnhilde was Soprano Elisabeth Ohms making...
...Pasetti, designer of scenery and costumes for the Munich opera) and intelligence (she speaks many languages fluently). But Manhattan last week was unwilling to give her unqualified approval on a single hearing. Critics confessed themselves swayed by her fine flair for the stage, conceded that the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde is the most taxing role in all grand opera. But her voice they found to spread unpleasantly, to be piercing in the upper register. Its colors were not deep enough, some said, to suggest a woman given to great love, revenge, final understanding...
...militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot...