Die Walküre - End of Act I - Siegmund heiss' ich

Die Walküre
Act I - "Siegmund heiss' ich"
Richard Wagner. Libretto by R. Wagner.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Conduction: James Levine.
Staging and direction: Otto Schenk
Recording: Met, 1990.

Siegmund....Gary Lakes
Sieglinde...Jessye Norman

(w/subs in spanish)

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[65attila]

To sing this magnificent difficult music requires super voices technique and stamina and putting over the drama. This was a wonderful performance and that is all that matters. Do people who get their noses wrinkled because Lakes and Norman do not look like siblings get nutso because most great Salomes do NOT look like 14 year olds? I bet not.

Should Norman never sing the role unless the Sigmund is black? Besides Lotte lehmann and Lauritz Melchior did not look like twins either ?

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[bcom11]

@117CamBam ignorant closed-minded people like you that hold humanity back.

[soon2BAODA]

Upon much research I found evidence that Wagner and Nietzsche were friends. So… we have Nietzsche, Wagner, Hitler and possibly, JRR Tolkien, (though Tolkien denies the link with Nibelungenlied, Hitler, or racism charges), an intergenerational transmission of hatred.

[vasiliynikitich]

Тьфу

[Chateaubriand26]

Je trouve que la version du Met a beaucoup de faiblesses. D'une part le chef d'orchestre, James Levine, qui n'est pas vraiment un Wagnerien, et donc la musique est un peu fanfreluche ; et puis les chanteurs, c'est pas à la hauteur des enregistrements de Solti ou de Furtwängler. Enfin, l'orchestre du Met ne doit pas être complet. Le Ring sans effectif total de l'orchestre, c'est de la musique de chambre. Il y a des adeptes, je n'en suis pas un. Boulez me semble plus adequat.

[sahandaman]

SUCH a fantastic production!

[UlfenDaddy]

@BOOLsheet LOL, a good clue about that is often the character of the comment itself. Those who attact others' person, education and intellect because they DARE have a different opinion regarding an artistic performance might be an important indicator of that very thing.

[bronxbearbud]

Then again, you have to wonder how Wagner himself would have felt about a black person (let alone a Jew) singing one of his operas....

[BOOLsheet]

can i ask a frank question: how many of you actually know what youre listening to and how many of you are pretending?