GERMAN OPERA.
OLD DAYS RECALLED
BT CA.BLE—PRESS ASSOCI.A TTOV—COPYRIGHT LONDON, May 6. An audience as brilliant and as numerous as in the "old days assembled at Covent 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 witnessing again all the organised gestures^ of Wagnerism drama, but agree that the performance was a most noteworthy one, going so far as to say that there must have been a vocal as well as a political revolution in Germany, for the standard is higher than ever.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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114GERMAN OPERA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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