Margarete Klose "Entweihte! Götter!"

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, "Entweihte! Götter! Helft jetz meiner Rache"
Recording: 1948

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[atomkraftteddy]

Wisely spoken!

[Toscarpia]

Soooooo many pathetic comments !! And so many of them meaning the same : "My Barbie-doll-is-prettier-than-y­ours" !!

Please, can't we just enjoy sharing those videos and not FORCE people to agree with us about this or that artist being the absolute best in the universe (just because we believe it) ?

[Mejeanpierre]

Jede andere Ortrud hat sich an ihr zu messen!

[chepin85]

For me Margarete Klose will always be the definitive Ortrud,Fricka, and Brangana.

[Geirrendour]

This is one of the best, maybe the best of the best :-)! Thanks for the upload!

[whatever456]

@LohengrinT I haven't had this much fun in a long time! You completely misunderstood my comment on conservatories. My point is that the kind of singer being produced there is the kindyou enjoy. The "flawless" ones. The ones taught to sing "with a smile" regardless of what they are singing. Creamy, dreamy, featureless and smooth. Many (not all) singers coming out of schools are technically proficient but not much else. You seem to like technical proficiency but don't care much for art.

[whatever456]

@LohengrinT @whatever456

This is the comment LohengrinT posted and removed "Ask anyone in a conservatoire? you mean the failled 10th class singers who teach in the conservatoire and hate everyone who was talented trying desperately to present them as froads as in their mind it was them who should be up there? Teachers who idolize ever form of vocal trick with which a singer can escape to sing a line but trick his way with it?

That is why you are a nobody Mr, because your idols are nobodies ;)

[whatever456]

@whatever456 Funny no? Caruso as an "insignificant" singer. I love it! By those standards I guess Shakespeare is insignificant too. After all he's dead and no one reads him (unless they are forced to of course, and even then, they usually fake it). Yes, sometimes I wake up and put on Caruso. But on the other hand sometimes I wake up and put on Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings:

[whatever456]

@whatever456 For those of you who are wondering what the comment that Lohengrin posted and removed was here it is "you ever listen to the recordings you mention? have you ever managed to listen to one of Caruso's performances? I dont know one single person who wakes up in the morning and says: now I will play Caruso's Fanciula. Historians of opera are people who in the inability to understand opera collect information about insignificant singers in order to present themselves as knowledgable

[whatever456]

@LohengrinT It would be much more satisfying to debate with you if you could come up with something interesting to say other than "this singer is 100% better than that one" Or "no one listens to that singer" anymore so they must be bad" But in the case of Welitsch I'll leave it at this. Her Salome was good enough for Richard Strauss and its good enough for me.