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World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:35 p.m., CBS). Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, from Salzburg...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...
...only role at the Met this season (she will sing it five times). But in signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade. She often works over her music with...
Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full of ultramodern patterns, but they are served up in comparatively palatable form: there are moments of humor, drama and bewitchingly strange sounds. Pianist Abramowitsch plays it with skill and enthusiasm...
Since advance showings of the movie have indicated that it will be a commercial success, the odds are that it will manage to get many theater bookings even without a Production Code seal and in spite of church objections. A German-language version called Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (The Virgin on the Roof), which was shot simultaneously in Hollywood, will be shown in Germany soon...