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Erda's Warning to Wotan (Das Rheingold - Bayreuth 1967)

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Uploaded by on May 7, 2008

From CD: Vera Soukupova sings Erda and Theo Adam sings Wotan. Karl Boehm conducts.

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  • Try Erde ... I think that's how it's spelled.

  • Erde is certainly the German word for Earth. I've only seen the Earth Goddess of Wagner's Rheingold listed as Erda in opera sites, CD booklets, and other publications, but perhaps she is sometimes referred to as Erde as well.

  • Erda's Warning: an evidence of Wagner's undeniable musical genius.

    Bohm's "Warning" is good, but I like Janowski's and Levine's "Warning" better for their stressed ethereality. But this is still good, and clouds are excellent imagery for this sort of piece. Personally, I prefer a cloudy stratosphere or forested mountains at night.

    You've done a splendid job with this video!

  • I'll have to check out Janowski's version - thank you for the recommendation - and thank you your encouragement! Erda's warning is, indeed, "evidence of Wagner's undeniable musical genus" - absolutely.

  • wonderful!!!

  • Thank you! The inspiration was an email I received at work with pictures of "amazing clouds," and what could be more worthy of these phenomena than Wagner's music - especially Erda's song?

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  • Erda as Mother Nature to her unfaithful but loved one they have a strange relation

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  • @dadasopher

    Yes, "Erda" is how it is spelled in the opera score as well.

  • Very impressive, personally I would have preferred the aria sung a bit slower but very beautiful in any case !

  • I found this a bit on the brisk side but there's no denying the power of Vera's voice or its beauty but I don't think it's something you're supposed to just boom out - still it's magnificently boomed!

    Your images splendid. Appreciated.

  • dang, this woman is amAZING! i am such a fan!

  • She's out here on YT!This one tops them all though.Adam,Bohm, Bayreuth.I had never heard this before.Wonderful version.

  • some1 can immagine Ewa Podles singing Erda?, it  will to be marvelous

  • Would really like to hear Böhms version of Siegfried's funeral march from this 1967 version of the Ring. I'd be very grateful if anyone would be able to upload it and share it with the rest of us!

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