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In Memoriam: Astrid Varnay (1918-2006)
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Sep 18, 2006
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On September of this year, soprano Astrid Varnay died in Munich, Germany. She was one of the great Wagnerian sopranos of our times, and one of the artists chosen by Wieland Wagner to re-open the Bayreuth Festival in 1951. Astrid Varnay was one of the most successful sopranos of the 1950's and 60's. In the mid 1970's she came back to the stage in character roles. In this podcast you will hear her in the role of Brünnhilde in the 1955 stereo recording of Siegfried from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
Released:
Sep 18, 2006
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (38)
Performance Practices in PARSIFAL (Part 2): The second part of the show brings us past the Bayreuth Nazi Era, and all the way up to the 1951 re-opening of the Festival after the war. This podcast features a recording from the early 1920's where the original Bayreuth Parsifal bells can be heard... by Wagner Operas Podcast