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Died. Walter Felsenstein, 74, director of East Berlin's Komische Oper since 1947; of cancer; in East Berlin. One of the century's most influential operatic impresarios, Vienna-born Felsenstein was a demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned...
...German version of the Ring especially, one could see and hear London's influence on the singers' diction, gestures and all-round Wagnerian style. Where his touch left off, Conductor Henry Holt's picked up. The Vienna-born, Los Angeles-reared Holt, 41, has been the Seattle Opera's music director for nine years. His Wagner may lack Sir Georg Solti's dynamism. But it has warmth, coherence and authority...
Died. Josef Krips, 72, Vienna-born conductor who rebuilt the musical life of his war-ravaged birthplace from 1945 to 1950, later led London's Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo's Philharmonic and San Francisco's resurgent symphony, and was renowned for mellow "singing" interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven; of lung cancer; in Geneva...
...Vienna-born Author Marek takes the biographical tack in The Eagles Die, concentrating upon Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, obviously hoping that it might do for Habsburg Austria what Nicholas and Alexandra did for Romanov Russia. He only partly succeeds, mainly because his principal characters were intensely private, imperial strangers both to their subjects and to each other...
...themselves. In other words, just make a civil war out of this crime wave" (1925). The energy crisis? "It's a question what we can convert these 4 billion filming stations into in years to come" (1928). The spirit behind the Rogers reincarnation is Bryan Sterling, 52, a Vienna-born freelance writer who settled in the U.S. after fleeing the Nazi occupation. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935. Sterling began hearing Rogers quoted in the late 1950s; he read a biography of the humorist (Our Will by Homer Croy) and was struck by the way Rogers...