GERMAN OPERA
AT COVENT GARDEN AGAIN. NOTEWORTHY" PERFORMANCE. Received May 6, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 5. An audience as brilliant and numerous as in the old days assembled at Covent Gardane 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 Wagnerian drama, but agree that the performance was a most noteworthy one, going so far as to say 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19007, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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