Flagstad Walkure

Kirsten Flagstad singing Ho jo To ho

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• Kirsten
• Flagstad
• Wagner
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[RRydnew]

The best Wagnerian Soprano....ever!

[chepin85]

Suberb rendition of a difficult aria. I have always felt that many parties underated Flagstad in the "Battle Cry" because she made it sound so easy.

[vassilopoula1]

Ι like her smile the most!Amazing!

[bach2984]

@slagelse77 lol .

[slagelse77]

@raigekimaru Shania Twain, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Celine Dion and Josh Groban has beautiful voices.

[ciroalb3]

I find it amazing taht no other film of her in performance seems to exist.

[RoarJuul]

INCREDIBLE :-)



[barmanjoe]

@RRydnew Without a doubt!!!

[richard63545]

@paulostroff99 Ponselle came from vaudeville and had a full bodied opulent voice that was perfect for italian lyric opera, and she sang like it. Flagstad sang the italian masterpieces in her early career and it was during this time that the Met first noticed her. Ponselle on the other hand never sang Wagner on the stage, just didn't have the voice for it, she all but lost her upper register in the mid 30's. Flagstad dwarfed everyone at The Met in the one area that counted most, ticket sales.

[paulostroff99]

Flagstad was easily a better Wagnerian singer if not the best female Wagnerian singer ever,but .that is the extent of it.Ponselle dwarfed her in the Italian masters and others.as well.

[paulostroff99]

@VivaRenata -Great.Should that word not read stimme and not shtemme,or is shtemme the plural of shtimme.

[richard63545]

@paulostroff99 Ponselle was great, maybe the 2nd greatest to ever grace the Met stage, but in the mid 1930's to early 1940's, whenever the Met put on a Gala event during those years Flagstad always sang last. Ponselle sang too but never last, she did not rule the Met stage as Flagstad did in those years. Great, great singers like Ponselle, Elizabeth Rethberg, Zinka Milanov, Helen Jepson, Bidu Sayao, Helen Traubel, Lily Pons all played 2nd fiddle to Flagstad during those years.