Comments on: Incest by Proxy

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:13:04 +0000

What is it they say…love is fine but incest is best?

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:23:22 +0000

Interestingly, you'll notice if you attend most modern productions of Siegfried, they don't translate "Das ist kein Mann" in the supertitles (or, if yr at the Met, on the back of the chair). But it still invariably gets a laugh.

By: David T

David T — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:54:32 +0000

I still love Anna Russell’s remark about Siegfried awakening Brunnhilde:

“She’s his aunt, by the way.”

And I suppose “Das ist kein Mann” has gotten more laughter than any other line in a non-comic opera…

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:29:38 +0000

I bet you didn’t know that Wendy Doniger was a classmate of my sister Ellen, in high school in Great Neck.