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...Richard Wagner has not been particularly well served at the Metropolitan Opera in recent seasons. One reason, to give the Met the benefit of the doubt, is that neither Tristan und Isolde nor the Ring cycle makes much sense without Heldensoprano Birgit Nilsson, who has been away from the U.S. for several seasons and gives no sign of returning. Last week the Met considerably shored up its Wagnerian wing with a new production of Tannhäuser that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense...
This was the first Tannhäuser Levine had ever led and only his second Wagner opera (the other being the Met's Lohengrin last year). The current season is only his second as music director, and the verdict about his abilities as a collector and builder of talent is not yet in. But on the podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were...
Occasionally Mozart is replaced by Franz Schubert or Ludwig van Beethoven. (God help us if Richard Wagner ever creeps in at that hour.) Brzezinski rum mages through the CIA reports and the diplomatic dispatches. It is usually pretty serious stuff, but now and then there is some humor...
...Kathleen Robinson, 17, a frequent hitchhiker, was found beside a parkway in Los Angeles. The two youngest, Dollie Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, vanished a week before their bodies were found on a trash heap in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Neighbors of the latest victim, Lauren Rae Wagner, 18, a student at a local business college, saw her in a car with two strange men the night she disappeared...
...Koreans are much more efficient than this. It must have just been the work of some middle level bureaucrat who wrote down the names of people who were hostile towards the Park regime at the time," Wagner said...