Word: tiefland
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...Hitler's favorite filmmaker and cinematic chronicler of Nazi Germany who later turned to underwater photography; for Holocaust denial; in Frankfurt. Riefenstahl, who celebrated her centennial last week, is being sued by a Gypsy organization for dismissing allegations that Gypsy slave laborers used as extras in her 1943 film Tiefland were later returned to concentration camps...
...starred in seven Fanck adventures, climbing mountains barefoot, enduring avalanches, crossing deep crevasses on a rickety ladder, radiating alpine glamour. She directed and starred in two innocent, ravishingly visualized fiction features, The Blue Light (1932) and Tiefland (shot during World War II but not completed until 1954). Early in the Hitler regime she assembled two short films about Nazi functions and officials. But it is her feature documentaries that even today make her noted and notorious. Triumph of the Will (1935), a record of the sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, starred Adolf Hitler. The two-part Olympia...
...left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life's work is Tiefland (1903). Often played in Germany and occasionally produced in the U.S., it has now been painstakingly embalmed by Epic...
...libretto tells of a simple shepherd who descends from the Pyrenees into the worldly "Tiefland" (the Lowland) to marry his master's doxy. When he mistakenly suspects that his bride's inclination is still to the manor bed, he at first considers stabbing her, later hits on the happier solution of strangling the landowner and loping back to the hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded...
...slender girl of 18 when she first walked onto the stage of Oslo's National Theater to make her operatic debut in d'Albert's Tiefland. She had only a small voice, but critics agreed that its quality was pleasing and that she was "very musical.'' After that she made rapid strides, and the world beyond Oslo inevitably heard of Kirsten Flagstad. Last week, 40 years to the day after her debut and after one of the great operatic careers of the 20th century. Soprano Flagstad sang goodby on the same stage...