Word: gotterdammerung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante}. This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians realized that Flagstad was only one part in the cycle, no more important than Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior who must battle and die as Siegmund in Walkure, become the swaggering, youth ful hero in Siegfried, the valiant, mis guided...
...wags came stalking into the Crimson office, grinning like a baboon, slapped the program of a recent symphony concert on our desk, and demanded that we print two whole pages out of it bodily. The heading to the particular note that interested him read: "Death Music of Siegfried, from 'Gotterdammerung', Act IH, Scene 2". In its own eloquent way it was almost as moving as the music. And then immediately under it appeared a modest advertisement for J. S. Waterman & Sons, Funeral Service since...
...preparations have gone on at fever pitch. This week begins the most ambitious undertaking in San Francisco's opera history: the presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, that mighty tetralogy which, 26 years in the making, includes the operas Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung...
...tremendous scope of the Ring with its mass of detail is frightening to many a first hearer. Richard Wagner was 26 years writing it, doing first the poem of Die Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and Die Meistersinger, operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried...
There were other weird happenings that afternoon. Footsteps sounded spookily on the empty stage. Voices were heard asking for hammers and saws and a band of unseen carpenters seemed to start pounding away on the boards. Again the unseen orchestra played, this time the finale to Wagner's Gotterdammerung. It climbed to such mighty crescendos that even hard-headed scientists sitting in the audience could imagine that 2,000 men or more were playing to them...