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  • This must be one of my favorite performances ever. All categories. Thank you for posting!

  • Sometimes you don't need to belt out notes to get noticed....he sings this with the most tender voice and the beauty comes from gentleness of those notes......simply splendid... i got chills all over my body in the last part of that song

  • The piece is "Sei mir gegrüßt, du holdes Venetia" -- EINE NACHT IN VENEDIG -- Johann Strauss, Jr.

  • Gedda forever!

  • ¡¡¡QUÉ DOCUMENTO ESTUPENDO!!! Descomunal...!!! Una versión aún muy superior a las de estudio con Ackermann, con Allers y con Mattes ("Bella Venezia" Lp). Un artista fuera de serie, sin herederos. Ey! Beczala: A estudiar mucho!...

  • Gedda the Great

  • God, what an ease, what a composure. What love for the material.

    As always, Gedda, great Gedda...

  • Unexcelled in this kind of role at this time. Wonderful to see. TY.

  • Do you perhaps know in what occasion was this video made?

  • This is part of a German movie from 1965, hofball die waltzerkong.

  • Thank you.

  • May I say, that this WDR-Production "Hofball für den Walzerkönig" was made in 1966. Another guest was young Lucia Popp. After this performance, Gedda received an k.u.k - Award for his singing - and Gedda modestly replied: "Aber, warum...?" The Teleplay is a little bit ridiculous, but another fine document of the young Gedda on Video. Mike

  • I am wondering how you can possibly know all these things, Mike. You're wonderful.

  • By the way - what exactly is this k.u.k.?

  • ".K.u.K." means "Kaiserlich und königlich" (Imperial and royal). It´s use to the so-called "Dual Monarchy" of Austria and Hungary from 1867 to 1918 (the end of WW1). The most famous composer of this era was J. Strauss II. Mike.

  • Ah, that. I was familiar with that expression (also Slovenia belonged to that empire), but somehow I didn't connect it here with an award. Thank you.

  • Thank you very much! I am delighted to see this video.

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