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...Raymond Leppard, a specialist in 17th century music, was an adventurous choice to lead the orchestra. He responded enthusiastically, adding an overture and some instrumentation of his own devising. Singing the part of Susan B. Anthony is Mignon Dunn, who claims she knows every mezzo and contralto role in Wagner's Ring cycle. Her voice sounded opulent, and in her rich scarlet uniform, she occasionally looked more like a warrior maid than a Quaker suffragist...
...Million Dollar Man has been so fruitful during its first three years on ABC that it is replacing All In The Family as the busiest spin-off nursery. The Bionic Woman came first, after lovely Lindsay Wagner made some guest appearances on the parent show. Wagner bounded into the ABC schedule with her own program to share the Top Ten ratings...
...ashore that's going ashore! All aboard that's coming aboard!" Resplendent in a white dress uniform with new, gold commodore's bars on the shoulders, Captain Ernest Wagner, 66, pulled a well-chewed cigar from his mouth to shout his time-honored warning from the end of the gangplank. Then he climbed five decks to the wing bridge adjoining the pilot house and ordered the long pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked...
Painful Fun. Chéreau obviously does not want to be confined to either a realistic Ring or a symbolic one. Says he: "I don't believe in pat solutions. What interests me in Wagner are the contradictions." So he has staged the Ring largely in the "modern dress" of 1876, the year of its first full performance. To that basic idea he has added touches of surrealistic humor. For example, the giants Fasolt and Fafner, who gain the magic ring in Das Rheingold in payment for building Valhalla, lumber around on the sagging shoulders of two local weight...
...each intermission, the Wagnerians strolling about the Festspielhaus grounds are summoned by musicians who stand on a balcony and play a theme from the upcoming action. The crowd clambers across the rough floor boards, seats itself on the hard, wood seats-decreed by Wagner for the sake of sound. Physically nothing has changed in the Festspielhaus auditorium since Wagner designed it, and its acoustics are among the best in the world. The old man would probably relish the scene in 1976: the full house, the well-dressed crowd, the impresarios gathered from several continents. As for Chéreau...