Word: turtlenecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet boy who favors jeans and turtleneck sweaters, Paul has been studying art with his father for the last four years, but the old man's suggestion at first seemed absolutely balmy. Though the lackluster Summer Show gets an annual trouncing from London's critics, it does represent the Academy's pick of some 10,000 entries sent in by R.A.s and other painters from all over Britain. But last week, when the show opened with appropriate pomp, it was Paul and not his father who was there as an honored guest...
...Thomas Schippers. In the role of the Dutchman (equated by Wagner with both Odysseus and the Wandering Jew) Baritone George London was convincingly demon-ridden, his voice fresh, passionate but controlled. In the comparatively minor role of Daland, the Norse sea captain, Bass Giorgio Tozzi-convincingly costumed in turtleneck sweater, jacket and boots-sang with warm-timbred verve, while Tenor Karl Liebl turned in his best performance of the season as the huntsman Erik. But the real standout of a standout cast was Soprano Leonie Rysanek in the role of Senta, the self-sacrificing heroine who in characteristic Wagnerian style...