Word: gotterdammerung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music wonk predicted that "this was the year they would do Gotterdammerung on a card table." He wasn't far off. Saturday night the Music Club mounted what was billed as a concert performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio...
WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (5 LPs; London). Following close upon last year's triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time charging every passage of Wotan's family fracas with drama. The lush and beautiful singing is alive with emotion, the stars being an international assemblage of accomplished artists: Birgit Nilsson as Briinnhilde, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Christa Ludwig as Fricka, and Hans Hotter as Wotan. Not quite so great...
...precarious. They are among the very few centers of rational thought left in a frightened country, and as such are the object of frequent attacks by the government. The universities now are sad and depressed communities in which many persons are acutely aware of South Africa's approaching Gotterdammerung. Many top faculty members have emigrated; many high calibre students go overseas for graduate study and never return...
...Rerun of an excellent series. Tonight: "Gotterdammerung," the deaths of dictators and Germany's surrender...