Long-time Berlin resident Helga Galler, 60, was among the 400 people waiting for the landing at Berlin's Templehof airport.
Helga Richardson, the Costa Rican consul in Hawaii, said her government told her of the missing boat soon after it disappeared. She then alerted the Coast Guard.
Richard Cassilly sounded Wagnerian as Herod, keeping a full voice centered to punch it authoritatively through the large orchestra. Helga Dernesch was glamorous as Salome's mother, Herodias.
Helga Dernesch as the Nurse was having pitch problems.