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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday,* February 26, 1969
F'a g T w T H E M I C I G A D A I Y W d n e s a y; F e b u ary 2 6, 1 9 6
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Flying Dutchman may change your mind
By R. A. PERRY
Wagner, perhaps like Jean
Luc-Godard (if you will pardon
t h e comparison), is an artist
either hotly detested or enthu-
siastically embraced; s e 1 d o m
does he elicit a middle-road re-
sponse of disinterest. Many mu-
sic lovers would like to apply
Wagner's estimation of Meyer-
beer to Wagner himself: "an ir-
resistibly mongrel, historico-ro-
mantic, diabolico-religious, emo-
tionally fickle, bigoted-voluptu-
ous, frivolously sacred, myster-
loso - shameless hodge - podge."
Others w o u 1 d sincerely agree
with Baudelaire when he wrote
to Wagner "I owe to you the
greatest musical pleasure I have
ever experienced."
To those who know Wagner
only by exerpted orchestral pas-
sages and who view the prospect
of sitting through the Ring
cycle (lest making the voyage to
the Mecca called Bayreuth) a
horror of unending boredom, I
would suggest acquaintance with
the early and magnificent opera
The Flying Dutchman. A recent-
lY released set by Angel (SCL-
3730) with a fine cast and even
finer engineering makes this en-
counter an exhilirating affair.
The plot of The Flying Dutch-
man deals with the mental tor-
ment of existential wandering, a
mythic Western horror of time,
the sacrifice of love, and Release
only through death, which, if
love be true, may be a dying into
Life. Wagner's libretto evoked
many sources, primarily Heine's
Memoirs of Herr von Schnabele-
wopski and Eugene Sue's The
Wandering Jew. A y e a r after
reading Heine, Wagner himself
experienced a terrific storm at
sea that activated the literature
he was reading into a personal
reality. That storm is scored in-
to the opera itself. Wagner
wrote: "a feeling of indescrib-
able contentment came over me
when the enormous granite wialls
echoed w i t h the calls of the
crew . . . the sharp rhythm of
the call struck me like a mighty
consoling omen, and soon shap-
ed itself into the theme of the
sailors' song in my Flying Dutch-
man." One thinks of Turner rid-
ing trains with his head out the
window and later translating
these blurry visual experiences
into his luminescent paintings.
Libretto and score grew out of
Wagner in two years, and the
final w o r k was completed in
1841. It was not, however, until
1843 that the opera was present-
ed in Dresden, and then to a
grumpy press that preferred
Wagner's easier Rienzi. In time
it has come to be recognized as a
dramatic masterpiece that ex-
plores with vivid intensity the
psychological flux of its char-
acters' minds as well as music-
ally invokes the larger mythos
in which these characters play
out their personal destinies.
In estimating Angel's new re-
cording, which uses the original
Dresden version thus restoring
several "traditional" cuts, I
have to first mention that the
stereo effects employed are not
only enormously successful, but
seemingly essential. The engin-
eers have enabled us to visualize
t h e Dutchman's ship creeping
closer to Daland's and to see the
sweep of the waves moving
across the stereo seascapes. Cer-
tain effects, such as the creak-
ing of anchor ropes, or the click-
ing whirr of the girls' spinning
wheels, add immensely to the
dramatic visualization of scene.
Happily, the recording stands
not merely upon its stereoisms
but upon its excellent singers as
well. Theo Adam provides a truly
tormented Dutchman who con-
vinces us of his endless trials by
appropriately paying great heed
to the dramatic exigencies of the
text. Thus in his opening mono-
log ("Die First ist um"), Adam
does not so much captivate us
by the richness of his bass voice
as by the sensitive reading of his
lines. The transformation within
this monolog from resignation to
hope to defiance becomes vital
and real. Although Adam at
times loses vocal command when
asked to sing quietly, he main-
tains the high dramatic inten-
sity and reality of his r o 1 e
throughout the opera.
Martti Talvela, who sings the
role of Daland, seems to be ev-
erywhere in today's internation-
al music scene, performing in
both oratoria a n d opera with'
increasing frequency. (I heard
his profondo voice in Cleveland
last spring in the Verdi Req-
uiem). His enactment here of
the Norwegian sea captain de-
sirous of the Dutchman's treas-
ure I found to be not only ex-
ceedingly well controlled, but
also dramatically believable at
all times.
The leading female role, that
of Daland's daughter Senta who
sacrifices herself for the Dutch-
man, thus releasing him from
his eternal wandering, is sung
by twenty-seven-year-old Anja
SilJa. Silia provides no special
asset to the performance - her
voice constricts in t h e upper
registers and s h e suggests no
reserve power (a sine qua non of
Wagnerian singing) - but she
is, at least, also aware ofi the
theatrical reality that hallmarks
this recording endeavor, and
contributes accordingly.
Otto Klemperer, who conducts
this Angel performance, is not
known for spontaneity or flex-
ibility, yet his supreme control
provides a needed balance here.
That is, the dramatic thrust and
fervor of the score never is al-
!owed to sprawl and sink to mel-
odrama, yet the rhythmic pulse
is maintained at all times.
Klemperer, in whose Beethoven
and Brahms I find coursing no-
ble blood that is 90% embalm-
ing fluid, builds enormously ex-
citing crescendos of power in
the storm sequences, allows the
perfect amount of swagger to the
sailors' chorus, and - keeps the
excellent soloists always- for-
ward-moving, while -allowing
enough time for the psycholo-
gical validity of the r o 1e s to
emerge.
If you 1 o v e Wagner, you'll
certainly like this Angel set; if
you hate Wagner, t h i s Flying
Dutchman may change your
mind.
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