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...Voyage, Hoyden (10) 8 -Falconer, C/ieever 9-The Valhalla Exchange...
...Valhalla Exchange, Patterson...
...staged the Ring largely in the "modern dress" of 1876, the year of its first full performance. To that basic idea he has added touches of surrealistic humor. For example, the giants Fasolt and Fafner, who gain the magic ring in Das Rheingold in payment for building Valhalla, lumber around on the sagging shoulders of two local weight lifters hidden beneath their cloaks. This joke is painful fun, since Bass Bengt Rundgren, who plays Fafner, is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs...
...good deal more excitement went, too, at the hands of the designers. These days no one really expects Fricka to ride on in a chariot drawn by rams, but why sacrifice the whole idea of the Valkyries as warriors? Shields and spears are banished from this Valhalla (directed by Wolfgang Weber and designed by Giinther Schneider-Siemssen). Maybe the old helmets were corny, but they were no worse than the dated bouffant coiffes the maidens now wear, not to speak of the evening gowns, complete with sequins and bugle beads. The nine mighty young immortals lack only evening purses...
CANDIDE. Harold Prince's agile production pays Voltaire the tribute of unblemished veracity, and Leonard Bernstein's score could well be his passport to musical comedy's Valhalla...