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As though at wizard spell of his, the wonders of the Venusberg unroll their brightest fill before him; tumultuous shouts and savage cries of joy mount up on every hand; in drunken glee bacchantes drive their raging dance and drag Tanhauser to the warm caresses of love's goddess, who throws her glowing arms around the mortal, drowned with bliss, and bears him where no step dare tread, to the realm of Being-no-more.
Here I drew up in my pocket-book the detailed plan of a three-act opera on the 'Venusberg, and subsequently carried out the composition of this work in strict accordance with the sketch I then made. One day, when climbing the Wostrai, I was astonished, on turning the corner of a valley, to hear a merry dance tune whistled by a goatherd perched up on a crag.
Hermann Goetze, your agreement is with me, not with Sir Owen Asher." "Quite so, Miss Innes, but " "If people don't care sufficiently for art to dine half-an-hour earlier, they had better stay away." "But you see, Miss Innes, you're not in the first act; there are the other artistes to consider. The 'Venusberg' will be sung to empty benches if you insist." It seemed for a moment as if Mr.
No use is made of the leit-motif; only when Tannhäuser loses his wits and sings in praise of Venus do we get reminiscences of the Venusberg music. In the third act the structure is the same. Number flows into number, it is true, without full-closes without full-stops, so to speak; but those who have never before heard a note of Wagner can follow as easily as they could a Gluck or Mozart opera.
I didn't work. I begged. Three of us from the saloon they call the Owl's Chute two Yale men one of them had been a judge and I. We've been begging for a week. We were going out on the road in a few days to rob. Then I saw you in that old women's dance hall the Venusberg, they call it." "You've come down here for me, Rod. You'll take me back? You'll save me from the Venusberg?"
"Only in the Venusberg can one experience the joys of true love," he shouts; the ladies rush out in terror, leaving only Elisabeth; the men attack Tannhäuser. He would be killed, but Elisabeth suddenly interposes all stand aghast at the bare notion of her interceding for so shameless a wretch; but in the end she gets her way.
Impatient of such commonplace details, I described her fully. But the glory of her bronze hair, her great dark brown eyes, the quivering sensitiveness of her lips; her intoxicating compound of Botticelli and the Venusberg; the dove-notes of her voice; all was a matter of boredom to Scotland Yard.
For the performance of Tannhauser, at Paris, I re-wrote the scene in the "Venusberg" on a larger scale: at one of the rehearsals I explained to the ballet master that the little tripping pas of his Maenads and Bacchantes contrasted miserably with my music, and asked him to arrange something wild and bold for his corps something akin to the groups of Bacchantes on ancient bas- reliefs.
In order to celebrate Wagner's triumph over these masses, however, he at once made the lithograph called Venusberg, from which sprang the very different oil version of the same subject which together with the Hommage
"Well," said the Princess, "I don't see any difference between a ballet in heaven and a ballet in Venusberg." The Emperor has made a fine coup de popularite. He refused to have the new boulevard named after his mother, and cleverly proposed it to be called Richard Lenoir, the man who led his fellow-workmen in the Revolution. We were invited to one of Rossini's Saturday evenings.
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