Anja Silja, Věra Soukupová and Helga Dernesch are alive. I wish Birgit Nilsson was as well :(

can you takre the filter off?

Amazing! Where did you find this recording ?

Estrongo Nachama war die Stimme Berlins. Für uns alle.

One of the two greatest Tristan performances I've ever heard. The other is from Osaka, again with, Miss Nilsson, and Mr Windgassen.

Danke ; ich weine, in den Tagen, wo die Angelsachsen endgültig meine Feinde werden.

Ich war als Opernsänger auf der Bühne dabei!

THE ONLY TENOR TO COME CLOSE TO VOLKER........KONYA OFTEN SANG WITH TEBALDI AT THE MET.....THE ITALIAN REPERTOIRE WAS GLORIOUSLY SERVED BY THIS IMMENSE ARTIST.....AT THE SIDE OF THE GREATEST ITALIAN SINGERS OF ALL TIME!

Yikes! She is not Isolde!

Wow, I've only heard Helene Gespass version before. This is great as well

What’s the organ piece called that’s played in the beginning of the video? I can’t find it anywhere

Igual que giuseppe borgatti, tenor heroico cantando wagner en italiano y son voces fuera de serie vignas el tenor heroico qué más me parece interesante y voz y emisión de sonido son de estudiar. Gracias por tu gran gusto y compartir estas voces.

Lo canta a la italiana, no respete la tradición francesa

Schabbat Schalom aus Prag-Jerusalemsgaße!

2:52:40: is it the tape or the orchestra?

17:37: Sorry for Manfred Schenk... he also sang Wotan later

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This is fascinating. especially for all of us who are huge fans of Franz Mazura. Thank you so much for posting!

Danke

I was there too in 1972, but maybe there were some changes along the way? Tannhäuser falls tragically victim to the establishment. This is already apparent from the text. And as I remember it was highlighted like this: Tannhäusers' phrase "Heilige Elisabeth, bitte für mich" came right towards the very end,, directly followed by a loud BUMP! when he falls down dead. In exactly the same moment, the stage with the dead Tannhäuser is bathed in strong shrill white light and the shortened version of the choir (maybe offstage if at all) with brass spitting our the melody sounds in the same splitsecond. What a synchronisation of action, light and music And what a ierce picture beyond words of the tragic theme. I miss the BUMP! and the light schock in this video. Wonder btw how it looked in the DVD version.

Zu schnell, besonders das Ende!

Absolutely AMAZING to hear this. I only got to Bayreuth the next year,1974. i was never blessed to see WIELAND'S MASTERPIECE

Does anyone know where to find a video of this production, rather than just audio? Thanks!

I saw this production in that year, the second performance, I think. Beresford had a BIG memory-lapse during the Venus-scene in Act I and Esser took over in II and III. Whether this was specifically a vocal crisis I never knew. I don't remember him sounding bad. (I had seen him the year before singing Siegmund, in English, with ENO -- or was it still Sadler's Wells in 1971?) This was the first Bayreuth production since the 1951 reopening NOT to have been directed by one of the Wagner brothers. Though some of us cheered, this production was soundly booed because Friedrich, coming from the East, school of Felsenstein, was deemed to have delivered a Marxist reading of the opera. The flashpoint was the male chorus appearing onstage facing out to the audience at the end. (In later performances I understand they sang from offstage.) This was considered politically inflammatory (!!!) At the climax of the Entrance of the Guests in Act II there were (most people thought they saw) Nazi-ish salutes. The Landgraf's retinue were certainly projected as harshly militaristic. This all tells you about Bayreuth at the time rather than about Tannhaeuser or Wagner. Regietheater? Technically, I suppose yes, because the director was thought of as using the opera as vehicle for a non-Wagnerian 'message'. I saw it again in 1978, by which time the centenary Ring had assumed the centre of attention and controversy. At this chronological distance though, the 'look' of it, as the 1978 DVD shows, is conventional enough. A lot of water has passed under this particular bridge, though! It's hard to see what the original fuss was about, but fuss there certainly was. A good production, however.

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Ahora mismo estoy escuchándolo...

Off pitch wobbly singing

I knew both of them in the '50s; Goldman prepared me for my Bar Mitzvah

when leider sings you show us müller, when müller sings you show us leider, when bockelmann sings you show us prohaska - very professional...

spiritual song

По большому счёту, это искусство закончилось в 1945-м году.

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Nicht wirklich schön gesungen!

Lo presenciè en directo y puedo asegurar que fue un desastre de Isolde absolutamente horrorosa......!!!!!

Simone Young is a great conductor! Real paintor of music❤ Alway a big pleasure to sing with her!

Als gebürtiger Hamburger, der sein ganzes Leben auch in dieser Stadt gewohnt hat, habe ich Heinz Kruse oft auf der Bühne der Staatsoper gesehen, auch als Siegfried. Ach, das waren Zeiten! Er war wundervoll und es war sehr traurig, als der Schlaganfall seine Karriere plötzlich beendet hat. Eine wunderschöne Stimme, ein toller Sänger, mit dem ich viel verbinde und den ich sehr vermisse. Ruhe in Frieden, Heinz! Vielen Dank fürs Hochladen, auch hier gibt Kruse wieder eine sehr souveräne Darbietung dieser Mörder-Partie, vor allem wenn man bedenkt, dass er hier schon über drei Stunden auf der Bühne gestanden hat.

With Uncle Claude!!!!!

Magnificent!

Bayrischer rundfunk has a lot of these documents I bet the full 1951 bayreuth ring is also available there. Some parts of Wieland's last production of tristan were recorded on video.

Further, my recording doesn't have the distortion heard in this recording, having just listened to the final scene from my complete open real recording from WFMT.

RIP Ruth Hesse

Fredrick Lechner was the Cantor at Central Synagogue in NYC. He taught me my Bar Mitzvah and married me 10 years later. He was an absolutely wonderful human being who is greatly missed.

Viele Jahre habe ich ihn jeden Freitag mir gegönnt im RIAS auch ohne es religiös zu sehen

From a time when Jewish life in Germany was still flourishing and was allowed to flourish, and enriched the country... ✨✨✨ Thank you for the superb recording! 🙏🍀

Favoloso cantore struggente ed intenso il suo canto sostenuto da una grande voce e da una partecipazione così forte ricca di calore e di grande umanità. STRAORDINARIO.

Kind of interesting that the cantor's voice has a tone/texture similar to Hermann Jadlowker's and Igor Gorin's.

Why was this production hated? It was the most traditional production at bayreuth since 1951

Superb archive.....and all the Sadness following.....OMyGod.....BRAVI from Acapulco!

Lovely. (And what an impressive building.)

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