Word: wagnerian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 of the churchiness that infuses the work. The performance also emphatically implied that Music Director James Levine, 34, is fast...
...city of 496,000 has a thriving cultural center that includes the Seattle Art Museum's Modern Art Pavilion, the symphony and a repertory theater that counts 25,000 subscribers. The opera company, nearly as good as it is bold, puts on the complete Wagnerian Ring cycle in German and English every summer. In a burst of civic pride, voters last month approved a $19 million bond issue to build a second theater, a rehearsal wing for the opera and symphony and another art center that will house the Tutankhamun exhibition of Egyptian art in 1978. Now about...
...reinterred and saves her marriage. In Musgrave, the statue is Ariadne, but only her pedestal is found. The Count is seduced by her laments, which only he -and the audience (Ariadne's music is on pre-recorded tape)-can hear. He redeems himself through a sort of Wagnerian metamorphosis in which he firs thinks of himself as Theseus, then realizes that the Countess (splendidly sung by a young newcomer, Soprano Cynthia Clarey) is his real-life Ariadne after all Ariadne is a delightful romance, and a the final curtain last week, the audience responded with long applause and bravos...
...writing about sexual love, Warren seems to take great pleasure in letting down his literary credentials. He can be romantically Wagnerian or barn yard raunchy. Orchestrating Jed and Rozelle's love affair, he is wise enough to know that passion thrives on obstacles-the more, the greater the passion. Beyond the obvious legal and social hurdles, there is Jed and Rozelle's shared yearning to accept what they are in terms of their Dugton past. In this sense, they ransack each other's bodies for the answer...
...Wagnerian Drama. Why then are so many Americans buying yet another book on Hitler? One reason may simply be Toland's dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that...