Wagner - Die Walkure (Royal Opera House, 1961)
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT41495
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 7th July 2014
Contents
Artists
Anita ValkkiClaire Watson
Hans Hotter
Jon Vickers
Michael Langdon
Rita Gorr
Marie Collier
Judith Pierce
Margareta Elkins
Joan Edwards
Julia Malyon
Noreen Berry
Maureen Guy
Josephine Veasey
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor
Georg SoltiWorks
Die WalkureArtists
Anita ValkkiClaire Watson
Hans Hotter
Jon Vickers
Michael Langdon
Rita Gorr
Marie Collier
Judith Pierce
Margareta Elkins
Joan Edwards
Julia Malyon
Noreen Berry
Maureen Guy
Josephine Veasey
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor
Georg SoltiAbout
- This was the first new production at the Royal Opera House conducted by Solti following his appointment as Musical Director of the Covent Garden Opera Company in 1961.
- The outstanding cast includes Anita Välkki as Brünnhilde, Hans Hotter as Wotan, Claire Watson as Sieglinde, Jon Vickers as Siegmund, Rita Gorr as Fricka and Michael Langdon as Hunding.
- The overall performance received high praise for its intensity and drive as well as Solti's fine musicianship.
- Solti obtains spectacularly fine playing from the Covent Garden Orchestra, described by the critics as 'superb', 'magnificent', 'the finest since the war' and 'exciting beyond words'.
- The production was meant to be the start of a complete Ring cycle directed by Hans Hotter and designed by Herbert Kern but Kern was replaced by Günther Schneider-Siemssen and the production revised, so this version stands alone and is not part of the eventual Ring cycle as completed in 1964.
- Recorded live on 2 October 1961 after the premiere on 29 September.
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