Wagner: Die Walküre
Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Ernst Wiedemann (Hunding), Otto Edelmann (Wotan), Gladys Kuchta (Sieglinde), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) & Irene Dalis (Fricka)
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Erich Leinsdorf
This 1961 performance from the Met has the disadvantage of variable sound...Yet you hear enough to recognise the excellence of the Met orchestra and the solidity of Leinsdorf’s conducting.
Wagner: Die Walküre
Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Ernst Wiedemann (Hunding), Otto Edelmann (Wotan), Gladys Kuchta (Sieglinde), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) & Irene Dalis (Fricka)
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Erich Leinsdorf
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This 1961 performance from the Met has the disadvantage of variable sound...Yet you hear enough to recognise the excellence of the Met orchestra and the solidity of Leinsdorf’s conducting.
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Birgit Nilsson’s first Met broadcast as Brunnhilde!
Erich Leinsdorf conducts some of the greatest Wagnerian singers of the post-WWII era in this stunning performance of 'Die Walküre', the highly emotional—and ever-popular—second installment of the Ring cycle. Otto Edelmann is Wotan, lord of the gods, who sees his carefully laid plans go tragically wrong. The incomparable Birgit Nilsson sings Brünnhilde, his favorite warrior daughter. Jon Vickers, at the top of his game, is Siegmund, the hero Wotan is putting all his hopes on before giving in to the demands of his wife, Fricka (Irene Dalis). Gladys Kuchta sings Sieglinde, Siegmund’s sister and bride, and the 24-year-old Martina Arroyo makes a cameo appearance as Ortlinde, one of the Valkyries.
Contents and tracklist
- Jon Vickers, Gladys Kuchta, Ernst Wiemann
- Metropolitan Opera
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Otto Edelmann, Irene Dalis, Birgit Nilsson, Jon Vickers, Gladys Kuchta, Ernst Wiemann
- Metropolitan Opera
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Gladys Kriese, Heidi Krall, Helen Vanni, Martina Arroyo, Mignon Dunn, Mary MacKenzie, Margaret Roggero, Carlotta Ordassy, Birgit Nilsson, Gladys Kuchta, Otto Edelmann
- Metropolitan Opera
- Erich Leinsdorf
Awards and reviews
5th August 2012
This 1961 performance from the Met has the disadvantage of variable sound...Yet you hear enough to recognise the excellence of the Met orchestra and the solidity of Leinsdorf’s conducting.
