On Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:07:43 AM UTC-8, Richard Loeb wrote:
Testament has announced release of the 1957 Covent Garden Ring with the cast below - I have had a copy of that Ring for some years and it has some very strong points esp Kempe (very lyrical and better than the 1960 Bayreuth
set); Nilsson is in great voice but dramatically unformed compared to her later work, Windgassen and Hotter are in very good voice - should eb worth hearing in a good remastering Richard
Cover image in preparation
Rudolf Kempe
Wagner: Der Ring der Nibelungen
Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in
1957
Das Rheingold (25 September)
Woglinde - Joan Sutherland · Wellgunde - Una Hale ·
Floßhilde - Marjorie Thomas
Alberich - Otakar Kraus · Fricka - Georgine von
Milinkovic · Wotan - Hans Hotter
Freia - Elisabeth Lindemeier · Fasolt - Kurt Böhme ·
Fafner - Frederick Dalberg
Froh - Edgar Evans · Donner - Robert Allmann · Loge -
Erich Witte
Mime - Peter Klein · Erda - Maria von Ilosvay
Die Walküre (27 September)
Siegmund - Ramon Vinay · Sieglinde - Sylvia Fisher ·
(Recent Youtube upload):
Sylvia Fisher & Ramon Vinay - "Der Männer Sippe" DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) 1957
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