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CENTRAL CITY, COLO., Opera House. A spritely sparring match between Don Ameche and Betsy von Furstenberg in There's a Girl in My Soup...
Once when old Otto von Bismarck's demands had set much of Europe atremble, he was asked if he wanted war. He replied, "Certainly not. What I want is victory." His remark reflected the attitude of countless uncomplicated ages when men waged their wars with relatively simple weapons for a single purpose. Using every available resource, adversaries simply beat at each other until one side ultimately collapsed and surrendered...
...Precedent. Within those limits, the production had its virtues. Aided by Karl Boehm's lively and sensitive conducting, Wolfgang gave intimate poignancy to the often-slighted scene in which the knight, Von Stolzing. works out his song for the mastersinger's competition. At the end, Wolfgang toned down the eulogy to German art by the cobbler, Hans Sachs (at which German audiences used to rise reverently to their feet), and closed the opera on Sachs's more characteristic note of skepticism and resignation: "Folly, all is folly...
...Central Europe, and the cast is varied and larger than could possibly be packed on a stage. The hero Stanley is a young Jewish playwright from Ohio, talented but vain, who is battening on the smash success of his first Broadway comedy. He falls in love with Stephanie von Arnim, a beautiful, aristocratic Austrian actress, and goes to live in her Salzburg castle with the hazy intention of fashioning a comedy for her talents and her accent...
MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (London 4212). An unmatched rendering by Conductor Bruno Walter and Contralto Kathleen Ferrier...