Word: wagnerian
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...matter, opera and art have very little to do with the journey that is undertaken. Instead a synthesized German pop soundtrack intrudes for much of the film. There is nothing to sustain the meaning, and it is no wonder that Fitzcarraldo falls apart. It's like watching a Wagnerian opera where the sound has been turned off. All that remains are frantically moving lips and hollow gestures...
Such devotion was a bulwark for both of them against an ungrateful world. Old Liszt swooped down occasionally to inflame Cosima's feelings of guilt. Nietzsche betrayed the cause with attacks on Wagnerian aesthetics. King Ludwig offered ardent support one moment and retreated into incipient madness the next; reports reached the Wagners that he went in and out of his palaces only by the windows and once ordered dinner for twelve, then sat down alone after bowing to the empty seats. Weary and overextended, Wagner toyed with emigrating to the U.S. on the condition that the American faithful would...
...more welcome because the season, still somewhat colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) fizzled out in something less than Wagnerian glory. It was in December, with Franco Zeffirelli's lavish cast-of-thousands production of La Bohème, that the company began the return to form...
Coppola parallels Gance's thematic conception for the film with his liberal use of the Wagnerian leitmotif: themes suited to a particular idea and varied according to situation. This, he asserts, concurs with Gance's Wagnerian idea of three operas: Napoleon's rise during the French Revolution; the establishment of the Empire and his despotism; his downfall and death...
...concentration camps. Anyone who does not want to hear can leave the hall." Two orchestra members and a number from the audience did so. As Mehta launched into the prelude to Tristan und Isolde and the Liebestod, dissident shouting and scuffling broke out. "Hitler go home!" shouted one anti-Wagnerian. Said Mehta: "We have spoken about this a great deal and we waited for a suitable atmosphere...