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...voices by demanding odd and un-vocal sounds. Though this attitude is widespread, there is evidence that it is less a matter of fact than fashion. Birgit Nilsson, though she sings no contemporary opera at all, points out that composers are usually ahead of performers. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, she observes, was abandoned as un-performable, "yet nowadays no dramatic soprano can be considered accomplished if she is incapable of singing an Isolde." Beverly Sills, who sang many modern roles before going on to fame in Italian bel canto operas, endorses Nilsson's and Reardon...
When financial woes forced the family-owned Krupp empire to become a public corporation, lawyers drew up a unique contract in which the late Alfried Krupp's son and sole heir, Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, renounced his rights to a $500 million inheritance. In return, Arndt, for the rest of his life, would receive 2½% of the sales from Krupp's Rossenray coal mine, one of the richest in the Common Market. This year that stipend will amount...
BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production of The Flying Dutchman, conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by August Everding and designed by Prague's Josef Svoboda; the late Wieland Wagner's staging of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and the Ring; Brother Wolfgang's production of Die Meistersinger...
...will not disappoint those who like the tried and true, though there will also be productions of some rarely heard operas. Emilio de' Cavalieri's The Representation of Body and Soul (1600), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), and Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne spell Von Karajan's controversial production of Don Giovanni, and Beethoven's Fidelio under Karl Böhm's baton. The classics-heavy on Mozart, of course-will be given their due by the Vienna Philharmonic...
Married. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 31, scion of the Krupp steel corporation who receives an allowance o $500,000 a year as a quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...