A WAGNER SEASON.
GERMAN OPERA IN LONDON.
STANDARD HIGHER THAN EVER. (Pei - Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, May 5. An audience as brilliant and as numerous as in the old days assembled at Co-vent Garden for the opening of the German opera season, when Wagner's "Rheingold" was performed in German for the first time since 1914. Critics comment on the strangeness. of the sensation of listening again to the correct, slow German tempi and of witnessing again all the organised gestures of ""Wagnerian drama; but all a free that the performance, was most noteworthy. One critic goes as far as to 'say that there must have been a vocal, "as well as a political, revohi-j tion in Germany,' for the standard is higher than ever. ]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10106, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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123A WAGNER SEASON. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10106, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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