Word: wagnerian
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...been improving steadily. The height is its presentation of Wagner's four-opera masterpiece, Der Ring des Nibelungen, opera's most ambitious undertaking. All performances have been sold out, but the most clamorous demand has been for the ones in which Birgit Nilsson, the only great Wagnerian soprano today, sings Brunnhilde. Then a couple of weeks ago, people with tickets to other performances won a bonus. When Leonie Rysanek, scheduled to sing Sieglinde in Die Walkure, got sick, Met General Manager Schuyler Chapin approached Nilsson, who was free to sing the role on three nights when...
...garment industry. Until several years after his marriage at 22 to Sara Perelmuth, the sister of Tenor Jan Peerce, he had never seen a Met performance. Inspired by the example of his prominent inlaw, Tucker, who was then a fur coat-lining salesman and cantor, began studying with Wagnerian Tenor Paul Althouse. According to Althouse, "Tucker just came for his lesson, took off his hat, sang, put his hat on again and went." Tucker was permanent cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center when he auditioned for the Met in 1944. The next year, on Jan. 25, he made his debut...
Married. Jess Thomas, 46, Wagnerian heldentenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Argentine Publishing Heiress Violeta Rios, 29, who fell in love with Thomas' Tristan three years ago and pursued him for months, tossing roses onto the stage after his performances, until a mutual acquaintance introduced them; both for the second time; in Tiburon, Calif...
...abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship a decade later, he posed as the "lonely wanderer out of nothingness" who had come to power. Finally there was the "imitation Wagnerian end" in a bunker in burning Berlin...
...Like the Wagnerian theater in Bayreuth that Mad King Ludwig paid for, Mrs. Harkness's monument may prove to be a lasting and useful home for the lively arts. Some of her talented dancers will surely be exposed some day to more challenging choreography. Mean while, one can only sorrow that so much love, money and care was expended to such little result. such little result...