Jon Vickers sings Die Walkure (vaimusic.com)
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Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle) $68.88 … |
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Wagner – Die Walkure / Hofmann, Altmeyer, McIntyre, Jones, Salminen, Schwarz, Boulez, Bayreuth Opera (Boulez Ring Cycle Part 2) $22.92 Wagner’s ideas of “racial purity” reach a logical conclusion in Act I of Die Walküre, powerfully performed in this Bayreuth production. Siegfried, the tragic hero of the cycle, is begotten in an adulterous, incestuous mating of Siegmund (Peter Hoffmann) and Sieglinde (Jeanne Altmeyer), a twin brother and sister. No miscegenation here. Siegfried will not be seen until the next opera in the cycle…. |
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Wagner – Die Walkure $28.53 … |
