Hildegard Behrens: Brunhilde's Immolation (HD)

with closed captions in Deutsch, English, Spanish and French

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• wagner
• oper
• gotterdammerung
• hildegard
• behrens

[Darjaius]

¿Hildegard era la mejor soprano que ha existido para el repertorio de Strauss y Wagner?

mi opinion sincera es que si...

Ninguna electra, ninguna brunilda, ninguna isolda y ninguna salomé seran lo mismo sin ella...

[WotansSpeer]

Behrens' Brünnhilde is one of the most exciting. Fantastic!!!

[OperaMystery80]

@windstorm1000 It's very possible and true. There were (and are) people who dislike the race or social class they were born into. It's well known that Cosima was strongly anti Jewish. Whenever there was a fierce anti Semite in those days usually they made up fake Aryan ancestry and hid their Jewish side. Hitler himself was part Jewish and was also another self-hating Jew.

[jewelmarkess]

@windstorm1000 I've not seen the Gott. yet - couldn't make it to the Met for it (I live in the suburbs), and the HD was sold out; will try the Encore in movie theaters or wait for PBS. I was judging by Die Walk. last year and what I read. I bet there'll be more videos in the next few days. I think innovation but has to be limited by the libretto and not make it a joke; also not interfere with the music: I heard The Machine creaks and makes noises.

[jewelmarkess]

@windstorm1000 Yes, very true. At least the Met's new Ring is better than what Russians did with Ruslan and Ludmila - this was a real asylum that even made "Nabucco and the Bees" seem better. At least in new Met Ring there are no toilets, no bees, no naked people running around - thank god for small favors.

[windstorm1000]

@jewelmarkess I unfortunately did not watch the HD of Gott. here in Santa Fe this afternoon---listened to it on the radio. How did The Machine look? Like a canaster with film images on it I hear ( I will check out the MET web). Atleast, as you mentioned, not as offensive as ghetto and industral trash productions ala Chereau wanna be's. I'm not against innovation and I'm sure neither are you, but these new directors are against taste and watchability.

[windstorm1000]

@jewelmarkess the inmates are running the asylum!!

[jewelmarkess]

@windstorm1000 These days there is a war on visual beauty. Also every director that doesn't transpose action to the Moon is criticized for not having "a concept". As someone said: the only good thing about "The Machine" in the current Met production that replaced this one is that it hasn't killed anybody yet. Yet it is better than what they do in Europe. But they wasted all that money on the new production and for what? Every time I hear "New Production" at the Met, I feel fear.

[windstorm1000]

@jewelmarkess That is more of a riddle than the sphinx!

[windstorm1000]

Behren's is an ecstatic performance unmatched for its intensity and expresiveness. I cannot think of another portrayal in all of opera that matches Ms. Behren's Brunnhilde---perhaps Callas's Norma. P.S.  i hope that explosion did not go off too close to where Ms. Behren's dropped!!

[Ringreader]

@windstorm1000 She absolutely was and always will be in our heats forever. She lives on with the recordings and the DVDs.

[windstorm1000]

@OperaMystery80 Cosima was half Jewish herself!!!!! She must have hated herself!!