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Femininity, to some nostrils, is a kind of scent that gets left on the work of art by skin contact. Sometimes it is a matter of technique: if Canadian-born Joyce Wieland executes a series of tenderly ironic icons of her native landscape, like Spring Tree, 1971, and does them by quilting, sewing and stuffing various cloths, it will inevitably be related to the small world of the sewing box; whereas if Claes Oldenburg sews and stuffs, it must be for other reasons...
...would continue to be produced ex actly as he originally directed. Through the years, the composer's family followed his wishes, using the house for productions of Wagnerian operas that adhered slavishly - and sometimes stodgily - to the Master's wishes. After World War II, Grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland broke with tradition by mounting a series of unorthodox interpretations of Wagner's works. But since the imaginative Wieland's death in 1966, the Festspielhaus has lost much of its postwar luster...
This summer, in an attempt to recapture Wieland's spirit of adventure, Wolfgang relaxed the family's autocratic grip on Wagner's monument by allowing Director August Everding and Designer Josef Svoboda to stage The Flying Dutchman. Everding, 40, is the di rector of Munich's Kammerspiele, one of Europe's most highly regarded repertory theaters. Czechoslovak Svoboda, 49, is famed both for his mastery of lighting techniques (he was one of the leading figures of Prague's celebrated Laterna Magika) and for startling stage designs (TIME, July...
BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production of The Flying Dutchman, conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by August Everding and designed by Prague's Josef Svoboda; the late Wieland Wagner's staging of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and the Ring; Brother Wolfgang's production of Die Meistersinger...
ludging from the thunderous opening-night ovation, most of the audience agreed with the critic who hailed the return of the "real Richard Wagner" to Bayreuth. Others deplored the production. "It was," said one reviewer, "as if Wieland had never lived...