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Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall...
Last week the Nazi leaders, conscious of a need to bring otherworldly comfort to their blitzed home front, were rapidly converting from heathen Wotan worship to Christianity. Some notable conversions...
...only really likable characters in Wagnerian opera are old men. While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations. For 20 years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera these benign Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time...
Schorr first appeared as Wotan when he was 23, in the provincial opera house in Graz, Austria. Son of a well-to-do Jewish cantor, he grew up in Vienna, where he studied law, earned his singing lessons by tutoring in Latin and Greek. His career really began to move in 1923, when he was stranded in the U.S. with a troupe of Wagnerian barnstormers. The managers failed to make good their $75,000 guarantee, but Schorr went on to the Metropolitan...
Last week, like Brünnhilde suddenly emerging from Wotan's imprisoning fire, Kirsten Flagstad was reported to have appeared in Sweden. It was rumored that, with her quisling husband, she had fled from Norway without permission of the Nazis, was trying to reach...