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This matinee, January 15, 1972, was the first Meistersinger I ever attended. I had known the opera only through recordings and had found it long-winded
These highlights from Wagner’s operas were recorded in 1957, just as Birgit Nilsson was becoming the world’s leading Wagnerian soprano and Hans Hotter was still
I doubt whether referring to Ben Heppner as today’s finest Heldentenor would raise any objections; some might argumentatively call him today’s only Heldentenor. He seems
This remarkably “alive” performance of Lohengrin was made after a couple of concert performances (we are told in the accompanying booklet) and it features the
The run of Walküres at the Met in late 1967 and early 1968 were to be directed and conducted by Herbert von Karajan–and indeed, the
There are only a couple of reasons to hear this performance, and practically none for seeing it. I believe it is the only video remnant
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
Lovers of historic vocal recordings may know about the Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst (Hamburg Archive for the Art of Singing), or HAFG, which is responsible
Neeme Järvi is turning into a modern-day Albert Coates: a conductor who plays almost everything fast. In the case of the two overtures, which contain
Here we have more than five hours of music on four jam-packed CDs that were first released in 1991 (from LPs) but have lately been
