“DIE WALKÜRE : Wagner
Original Air Date: 12/23/1961
Cast: Leinsdorf; Nilsson, Edelmann, Kuchta, Vickers, Dalis, Wiemann
Media: MOD Audio SID.17010140 Tags: Archive; 2017, Nilsson, Wagner
This performance was on not so long ago, and I caught most of it. Kuchta was much better than I had remembered; alas Edelmann seemed quite a bit worse. The two real vocal standouts were Nilsson and Vickers, who would put down in London a few months later a marvelous studio version with George London , Rita Gorr, and Gre Brouwenstijn under Leinsdorf; the Valkyries are a particularly strong group, among the best ever. A positive word on Ernst Wiemann, who for me is a German Giaiotti : a strong voice with a solid technique and well schooled in the German repertoire. Dalis is an incisive Fricka.”
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