Word: wagnerian
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There are many fine touches: the Fellini-esque Bavarian music-makers who pop up on hillsides and in taverns, the bloated Wagnerian singers who rush at each other on stage as Conrad's eye seeks his victims in the opera balcony, the gaudy wedding cake of a hunting-lodge decked out for the Countess's garden party. And, finally, a surprise ending throws the ultimate psychological confusion into a film which plays bewitching games with violence...
Once in a generation there appears an artist who by virtue of voice and temperament seems to symbolize an entire school of singing. Today, Birgit Nilsson is the archetypal Wagnerian Soprano, just as Jussi Bjoerling was the ultimate Italian Tenor during the 1940s and '50s. Both are Swedish, proving that national style has nothing to do with nationality. Since the death of Leonard Warren in 1960, no one man has been acknowledged by critics and conductors as the quintessential Italian Baritone. Now, though, there may be a legitimate claimant to the title. Like Warren and Lawrence Tibbett before...
...Columbia confrontation is by now a familiar classic of student dissent. Yet Roger Kahn, a 42-year-old New Yorker who spent many months interviewing the participants, has turned the 1968 spring uprising into a thoughtprovoking, if slightly Wagnerian drama. His book is both broader and more perceptive than the accounts that were rushed into print at the time...
...town of Bayreuth. Richard Wag ner originally built the opera house in 1876 as a setting in which his music dramas would continue to be produced ex actly as he originally directed. Through the years, the composer's family followed his wishes, using the house for productions of Wagnerian operas that adhered slavishly - and sometimes stodgily - to the Master's wishes. After World War II, Grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland broke with tradition by mounting a series of unorthodox interpretations of Wagner's works. But since the imaginative Wieland's death in 1966, the Festspielhaus has lost...
...find Sachertorte unappetizing, the waltz old-fashioned and the Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special class of people that Austrians consider teppert, or slightly mad. Even more than Milan, Vienna is the heart and soul of opera land, the city of melodic Mozartian fantasy and thunderous Wagnerian pageantry. Every coffee house has its tables of self-appointed critics; taxi drivers know all the gossipy details of each new backstage feud. Though impoverished Austria badly needed more practical things after World War II, one of the government's first major building activities seemed quite plausible...