Integral to Wagnerian ideology is a belief that all sense of individual identity vanishes during sexual activity. |
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Our first glimpse of the underwater world, implied through a perspective of giant rings, has a Wagnerian grandeur. |
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There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera. |
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He was literally larger than life and had an impossibly dramatic Wagnerian voice. |
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He must also contend with a house phone on which the chef buzzes him with a Wagnerian ring, as insistent as the Doomsday trumps. |
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That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs. |
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In 1919 his debut as Siegmund at Covent Garden established him as a leading Wagnerian tenor. |
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Unfortunately he had a chamber orchestra rather than a large Wagnerian orchestra at his disposal. |
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To the untrained ear, the Wagnerian clarinet sounds almost identical to its more modern cousin. |
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In recent years, she has developed a growing reputation as a Wagnerian superstar. |
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On occasion Wolf approaches a Wagnerian grandiosity of utterance, stretching the Lied to its breaking point. |
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Shore manages the admirable feat of summoning up a Wagnerian atmosphere without copying the original. |
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Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character. |
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The idea of Falstaff as a Wagnerian work caused controversy for the octogenarian Verdi. |
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Traditional Wagnerian performances tend to be rather silly spectacles, with lots of swords, cloaks and horned helmets. |
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Lamont sang with the Chicago Civic Opera until 1930, specializing in performances of Wagnerian, French and Italian opera. |
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It is Mallarmé who in the Wagner affair will have the most decisive influence and to the end will remain a fervent admirer of Wagnerian music. |
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This disc includes previews of two eagerly awaited debuts in other Wagnerian roles. |
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The tidal waves of sound rushing from the Wagnerian orchestra at peak intensity could nearly wash you out of the room. |
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The combination of socially acceptable elegance and Wagnerian lyricism that Franck presented did not please the orchestra of the time. |
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Overnight she became the pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano of her generation. |
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The composer has mastered completely the art of the Wagnerian leitmotif. |
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Simon O'Neill's voice is almost reedy enough to be authentically French, and he is mostly successful at coping with the score's Wagnerian demands without heaviness. |
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Yet German multiracialists evidently fear rotund ladies wearing winged helmets performing in traditional Wagnerian operas before placid audiences, because they fear anything that challenges their dogmas. |
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Sketch by Adolphe Appia for the set of a Wagnerian drama: notice the complete use of the three dimensions and the absence of realistic or picturesque elements. |
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The score held by Madame Ida Servais, a famous singing teacher, reveals a series of bad puns which emphasise the derisory character of the Wagnerian cult. |
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The rest of the score is vaguely Wagnerian arioso, but, mercifully, Tryptych provided surtitles to relieve the tedium. |
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Even in anti-Semitic Vienna, Gustav Mahler was renown as a Wagnerian. |
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On the fringe of verismo, this most Wagnerian of Italian composers was both heir to the great Verdi tradition and a passionate admirer of Debussy and Richard Strauss. |
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Admittedly, he could do nothing with the young Aryan from Hitler's S. S. bodyguard whom he photographed around 1940, and who gazes mistily offstage like a Wagnerian baritone posing for a publicity still. |
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This use of Wagnerian leitmotif technique is repeated and developed further in Ivanhoe. |
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His grotesque Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk is, however, the Orgiastic Mysteries Theatre, in which crowds of young people bathe in blood and conduct animal sacrifice at rituals in his castle. |
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Hans Werner Henze's Tristan borrowed freely from the Wagnerian version as well as retellings of the legend. |
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At the turn of the 20th century, Puccini achieved the art form's sublime culmination by combining the best of two worlds-seamlessly merging the new Wagnerian symphonic language with tradi-tional Italian lyricism. |
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After his first visit to Bayreuth in 1882, Chausson began to openly explore the new perspectives opened up by Wagnerian music drama with a work for voice and orchestra: Poème de l'amour et de la mer. |
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As for Mr Koizumi himself, he is holed up in his official residence, say political gossips, listening to opera. Something Wagnerian would go well with the terrible news outside. |
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The Straits Times index has lagged the go go Southeast Asian markets in Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Hanoi even before last week's Wagnerian sturm und drang. |
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In 2003, she retired from performing to dedicate herself to giving Master Classes and to coach other British singers in Wagnerian performance techniques. |
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For example, a Wagnerian opera presented in London may be in German. |
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