Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• WALTER E. RIEDEL

Titel

An Austrian in Ottawa: Carl Weiselberger’s Canadian Experience

Ist Teil von

• The Old World and the New, 1984, p.107

Ort / Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The 20th of December 1945 marks the beginning of Carl Weiselberger’s new career as art and music critic in Canada. On that date, the then proofreader of the newspaper the Ottawa Citizen made his debut with a short article entitled ‘Wagner – Enjoyable Again,’ an article reflecting highly personal feelings and experiences. The occasion was a radio broadcast of Wagner’s Meistersinger performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York; Weiselberger wrote: ‘Yes, I enjoyed the Meistersinger again, now that the dragon of force and conquest has been defeated and lies chained in a prison-dungeon in the very Nuremberg of