Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England single-hand sailing championships Saturday in New London, Conn., Harvard's Peter Wagner finished in fourth place...
...four finishers, Wagner qualified to compete in November's North American Championships in Mobile, Ala. Wagner ended the competiton with 98 points, four points ahead of the fifth-place finisher...
...last turn of the day's last race, Wagner found himself in fifth place with less than 50 yards to go--but he made a strong surge to overtake Brown's Bob Fryer and nail down the fourth-place finish...
Since its first performance more than a century ago, Richard Wagner's four- evening cycle of mythological music drama, Der Ring des Nibelungen, has been regarded as the Mount Everest of music, a daunting work that remains the ultimate test of operatic mettle. Despite its imposing demands, the Ring has been scaled repeatedly in the past four years -- at Bayreuth, San Francisco and Seattle, among other places. Last week the Metropolitan Opera took up the challenge, opening its 103rd season with a production of Die Walkure, the first installment of a new Ring...
...hour Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the sequence. Several of the Ring's most appealing characters are introduced, including the doomed incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Brunnhilde, the warrior maiden whose sympathetic heart causes her to be stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music...