Eileen Farrell sings Wagner
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT1415
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2008
Contents
Works
WagnerWesendonck Lieder
Wagner
Siegfried, Act III scene 3
Artists
Eileen FarrellSet Svanholm
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Stokowski’s Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Erich LeinsdorfLeopold Stokowski
Works
WagnerWesendonck Lieder
Wagner
Siegfried, Act III scene 3
Artists
Eileen FarrellSet Svanholm
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Stokowski’s Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Erich LeinsdorfLeopold Stokowski
About
The answers, sadly, are all negative. There was no Kundry or Brünnhilde, Bayreuth or Covent Garden. America’s national opera house never heard her in Melchior’s time and when it did it was in Gluck, Weber, Verdi, Ponchielli, Mascagni and Giordano: no Wagner. Various explanations have been offered, including the antipathy of Rudolf Bing, General Manager of the Metropolitan at the time, to both Wagner and Farrell. She herself told an interviewer many years later that she would have liked to sing Isolde but was never asked. The truth is more likely to be, as she states in her autobiography, Can’t Help Singing (Boston, 1999): “I kept getting pushed to do Wagner roles on stage, but I wasn’t interested. Doing Wagner excerpts in concerts was as far down that road as I wanted to go; building a career round Wagner had killed off too many sopranos.” She added that she regarded her voice as “too schmaltzy for Wagner”, and that anyway now that Birgit Nilsson had come along she was “happy to leave Wagner territory to her”.
Extract from the booklet note © John Steane, 2008
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