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No complete Metropolitan Opera broadcast performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre exists with the full “Golden Age of Wagner Dream Team” line-up of Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte
This is “historical” recording with a vengeance. The sonics are horrible. Taken from decayed acetates, the level of swish and static is not only high,
What is there to say? Here we have the two greatest Scandinavian sopranos of the 20th century (also two of the greatest 20th century sopranos,
As Guild’s excellent program notes accurately explain, the Good Friday April 15, 1938 Metropolitan Opera broadcast performance of Wagner’s Parsifal has been known to vocal
Wagner mavens with a nose for vintage opera broadcasts may have encountered this splendid Siegfried, aired January 30, 1937 live from the Metropolitan Opera, via
The Mahler is a sad case. Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad’s apparently waning
This nearly-50-year-old performance still retains its status as a “classic”, and the digital remastering that would appear to be the raison d’etre for its current
Ward Marston makes the complete studio recorded Flagstad/Melchior Wagner duets more listenable than ever, although not much could be done to mask the compressed dynamics
This recording of Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre was recorded in the studio in 1957. Hans Knappertsbusch’s approach is familiar to Wagner fans: big,
On November 13th, 1936, Fritz Reiner led the San Francisco Opera in Wagner’s Die Walküre, with a dream cast. NBC aired only the second act,
