Word: bayreuth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bayreuth's Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying...
...Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 21) will present seven Wagner operas (The Ring cycle, Flying Dutchman, Tannhd...
...personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some of Wagner's most sacred musical traditions. Last week at last, Von Karajan formally replaced his old rival, agreed to become the Berlin Philharmonic's permanent conductor...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2 :30 p.m., CBS). Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded at Bayreuth...
After the final curtain, half of the Bayreuth audience seemed in tears, clapped for 15 minutes. With Tannhäuser, the Bayreuth brothers have now redraped all the standard Wagner works in their new, bare, dramatically lighted dress. Their style has become a prototype for new Wagner productions in most major opera houses. Notable exception: New York's Metropolitan, whose Wagner producers seem never to have heard of Bayreuth's lighting, let alone Minsky...