Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior sing Gotterdammerung

This is the Prologue from Gotterdammerung. Kirsten Flagstad is Brunnhilde, and Lauritz Melchior is Siegfried.

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• Kirsten
• Flagstad
• Lauritz
• Melchior
• Gotterdammerung
• Wagner
• Siegfried
• Brunnhilde

[violinthief]

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[Operaddict]

Wagner loved Italian singers. He wanted everyone who sang his music to sing in an Italianate way. These two singers surely did! Such beautiful legato, lyricism and elegance!

They both excelled in Italian music also, but knew the big bucks were in Wagner's pages!

And pages and pages...

[AndyBetts]

there's an old saying: The great ones make it look easy. It's true of athletes, singers, everyone.

[TomC1447]

@Goetterdaemmerung7 there is a complete ring from la scala on disc furtwangler conducts

[VivaRenata]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but was the conductor of this recording not Edwin McArthur? He was mainly acknowledged as Flagstad's accompanist from 1935 on, but was also an excellent and knowledgeable conductor of opera, which this recording demonstrates!

[lewashcliffe]

Not only were Melchior and Flagstad the greatest singers of their genre, they were amazining musicians as well. Singing a complex piece of Wagnerian opera where the singers have their harmonic lines which interweave and blend while the orchestra has its own melodic line that at times if very different from the singers. Real musicianship of the highest order, the way Wagner wanted it. Thank you for the recording.

[Goetterdaemmerung7]

"Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde" ... Can anyone suggest to me a way of finding Der Ring des Nibelungen with Kirsten as Bruennhilde? I've only been able to find the Vienna of Georg Solti's recording, and am more or less new to the Opera, I would like to know how many recordings of Der Ring were produced and available?

[opera1232010]

Both are magnific! What a great singers they were... That was the great voice time my friend.

Thanks for sharing

Greeting from Canada

Pierre Heroic tenor

[chepin85]

Nobody ever sang "O heilige Gottern" as easily and a beautifully as Flagstad. The High C just flows out of her so easily.

[Tiefland1913]

@65attila

Not Flagstad :) It cuts off a bit short here. When I listen to it on my recording it can clearly be heard it is a mans voice.

[Tiefland1913]

@AulicExclusiva

What a completely unnecessary comment. You have obviously not read The MacArthur Biography nor Biancolli's The Manuscript.

[13loomisst]

Thanks you very much.