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RICHARD And FELIX: TWILIGHT When you look at the VENICE Big outline went for the Paul Koslo’s lay – marble pillars crowned with potted vegetation, a painted views of the Grand Canal – depicting the fresh new leased house in Venice, in which Richard Wagner (Don Deforest Paul) visited perish in 1883. Amidst which movie realism inside L. Flint Esquerra’s staging out-of Cornelius Schnauber’s play, Wagner was went along to because of the ghost off Jewish Felix Mendelssohn (Jerry Weil), who died nearly five many years before, possesses shown up to guide your to another front side, or perhaps merely to torment the newest anti-Semite. A beneficial gramophone player with wax ideas – toyed that have by the Mendelssohn for a moment – is a bit unusual, given that Emile Berliner did not patent the fresh contraption until couple of years after that play takes place. There are also two girls, one entitled Carlotta, Wagner’s muse (the gorgeous Addie Daddio), whom uses most of the latest enjoy reclined with the good divan getting muselike; additional, Franz Liszt’s daughter and you can Wagner’s next partner, Cosima (Kathryn Larsen), urges on her behalf partner’s shorter-than-latent anti-Semitism.