Word: wagnerism
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...invention." Next day, at an impromptu press conference in an Albany airport hangar, Rocky himself implied that the whole story had been planted with the Daily News by New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. He called it "absurd and wishful thinking on the part of the Democratic boss." Then reporters asked him if he thought that his divorce would hurt him politically. "I don't think so," he said. Question: "Do you consider the divorce question nonpolitical?" The heated reply: "I certainly consider it a personal matter...
Sloppy passing and poor defensive work by Coach Cooney Weiland's team gave the Gold and Green some important breaks in the second period. Defenseman Barry Wagner scored first at 2:24 with a hard shot into the upper right hand corner...
Curiously, Sutherland came to Donizetti and Bellini from a background in Wagner, a reversal of the process that usually finds a singer moving from lighter to heavier roles. Sydney-born, the daughter of a tailor, she concentrated at first on Wagnerian roles because "I had the build for it" (she stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 224 Ibs., now weighs 170). Eventually, on the advice of her husband, Australian Pianist Richard Bonynge, she decided that the bel canto repertory was where she belonged. She put in seven years at Covent Garden while developing the voice that would lead...
...operas, where she displayed a warm, vibrant voice, capable to a remarkable degree of denning feeling by alterations in placement and tone (fortunate for Farrell, since for all her sensitivity to mood she is not far ahead of Tebaldi in acting ability). Although she has the power to sing Wagner, she has stuck largely with an Italian repertory, has made her performance of Cherubini's Medea a stirring modern classic...
...impressing not only with her ringing power but with a precision of phrasing and general musicianship that is not always found in Wagnerian opera. Best of all, at 5 ft. 8 in. and 150 Ibs., Swedish Farm Girl Nilsson is capable of lending an air of physical credibility to Wagner that his operas never had at the Met while Flagstad and Traubel trundled massively across the stage. Unlike Flagstad, who had a richer, lower voice, Nilsson believes in imbibing large doses of Italian opera to escape the "German consonants" and the "Wagnerian...