Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things constitute a corporate course in the true art of monarchical government. In Richard II Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry...
...talk. Asked what he thought would happen to Mayor Lindsay's political career if he were appointed to the Senate, Buckley disposed of his former opponent with a casual "I don't know. Where will he give fewer speeches?" And what about ex-Mayor Robert F. Wagner's appointment as Ambassador to Spain? Nothing wrong with that, said Buckley of his former Democratic nemesis' new assignment. "After all, he doesn't have to run Madrid...
BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production by Wolfgang Wagner of Die Meistersinger under Karl Böhm's baton, a Ring cycle conducted by Lorin Maazel, Parsifal under Pierre Boulez's musical direction, plus a Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde...
SPOLETO (June 27-July 14). The eleventh season of the Festival of Two Worlds in the Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...
...slates still hang adjacent to the vast screens now lit dimly by the beam of a projector hundreds of yards away. Here play the films which last only seven days, the product that changes each Wednesday, supplied by a distribute who senses vaguely that the theatrical release of Robert Wagner films is a hollow formality prior to a greater pay-off of television sale and a nationwide screening on Saturday Night at the Movies. And when we sit in the half-light of these theatres, distracted by candy-laden children in action in too many aisles, wondering what evil lurks...