Wagner: Schmiedelieder aus "Siegfried" (Schager)

Andreas Schager (tenor)
Conductor: Matthias Fletzberger
Summertime Festival Orchestra feat. members of the Latvian Symphony Orchestra
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[@dougebraga]

It's just exciting to hear that! The idea of ​​Andreas performing with the hammer, in addition to being a bold decision, turned out to be very exciting - the experience turned out to be full, as it inevitably makes us feel all the emotion of the character Siegfried! Andreas' voice in this piece sounded exactly as I expected to hear from other performers - the "metal" present in his voice in the high region has all the responsibility of success. Bravissimo!!

[@airedalefranco3963]

Unglaublicher Sänger und Darsteller- Gerade in Bayreuth erlebt und begeistert!!! Noch nie so einen Siegfried live gehört !!!!!!

[@elsalohengrin7777]

Wen haben Sie denn so gehört?? Ich hatte die Ehre umd Genuss Ree Kollo und Siegfried Jerusalem hören und sehe zu dürfe? o alt in ich lleider nicht..dass ich Melchior und oder Flagstad.. 🙂

[@Alexisdc11]

Honestly the best version of the forging song I've heard since Lauritz Melchior's! Just too bad they cut the last verse of the "Notung'" song. It's the one with the most fun in it.

[@Horichdaslicht1858]

Agreed, and Stefan Vinke gave a thrilling rendition at Covent Garden, and still sounded fresh at the end. Compare these with the much-admired Windgassen, who to me, sounds out of his comfort zone in anything heavier than Lohengrin.

[@stephengould4343]

You could have Melchior up there and there'd be people saying, too static, don't like his lower register, doesn't provide enough colour in his voice, whatever. In the last 100 years there have been very few tenors who could get close to an ideal Siegfried and Schager, as I heard at the Met, is definitely one of them.

[@jamesrolfe7798]

lol no

[@angiedarkgothic]

He is a real Heldentenor. Absolutely stunning and impressive. I am a big fan of him. Congrats once more,Andreas.

[@marielischka2894]

Just discovered him yesterday at Baden-Baden as Siegmund. What an heldentenor !!

[@ivanessa_schnitzel]

Holy shit.Der Mann kann das.

[@tinyguy9398]

He also does an amazing Parsifal. Not just his vocals but also his acting is top notch. He plays the innocent fool very well, especially in the Berlin production with Kampe as Kundry. Here he is also very youthful and full of energy. One of the few singers to me who can pull of a convincing Siegfried (after all, he is supposed to be a haughty youth / young man and Schager more than convinces me of that here). If I were Brünhilde I'd be more than just Heil'ing the Sonne if this particular Siegfried woke me up, if you get my drift. Seriously though, he is just so unequivocally charismatic and charming here and I just love it! Bravo my fine fellow! Bravo!

[@Horichdaslicht1858]

Agreed, I had the good fortune to hear his Parsifal in 2019, my first visit to Bayreuth for over 30 years. Superb, and I hope he is signed up for Siegfried at Covent Garden in 2025. I have yet to hear him sing it in full, but sounds like he could be in the same league as Melchior, who was not much of an actor.

[@geo3573]

What is 'Wow' in German? Magnificent? May the Old Gods return.

[@Homoclassicus]

Very confident and strong singing, with the real timbre and power of a heldentenor! Really impressive tenor!

[@MrAristaeus]

It’s even more impressive that he’s doing this is an ‘open air’ tent!

[@grr8048]

What are you talking about? The mics were everywhere to catch the singing during his acting and the orchestra.

[@MrAristaeus]

@@grr8048it’s not just about amplification. In this case, I’m not talking about the perspective of the audience, but from the singer himself. Singing into an open space is more difficult as you don’t get acoustic feedback, so the tendency, especially in this music, is to lose calibration and over-sing.

[@sugarshow4941]

Siegfried intentions and purpose is very captured in this performance.

[@angiedarkgothic]

Wunderbar! Herzliche Grüsse aus Spanien,lieber Andreas. Gratuliere!

[@voltape]

Grüsse aus Lima Peru. Muy buena interpretación. (Disculpa, Angie. No se alemán)

[@erdalmickeyilkturk]

Dude, I cannot remember how many variations of this I have watched and listened to over the years. Yet, seeing an enthusiastic Siegfried is always a sight to remember. 😁

[@emanuelschweikert]

Ich habe ihn neulich als Tristan gesehen. Unermüdlich und voller Energie bis zum Schluss. Auch im dritten Akt!

[@dxhtz]

Bit of a spoiled audience to not stand after that. Brilliant performing in a difficult context. Great tenor. Also..that percussionist in the glasses, she looks kind of non-pluses that he’s doing such a good job playing the anvil, lol!

[@Ted10038]

Very impressive! Wow!

[@EG-wv3jp]

Saw him do this at the MET in NYC. Tremendous job!

[@Walter1950]

Bravo Andreas.....

[@iubanne]

Woooow. Very good voice for Wagner

[@Stereozentrum]

Great tempo, bravo!

[@Klinxor]

Thats rock and roll! Yeah!

[@Dashingdiva73]

🤘🤘😆🤘🤘

[@davidbastardo4154]

Cringe.

[@PatrickParker]

Amazing!

[@msvalderrama1]

I just fell in love. But wait. I don't want to get ahead of my skis and pronounce Schager great. I really, really like what I hear coming out of him in Wagner but he has already taken on ALL the big Wagner tenor roles before the age of 50. Even John Vickers knew to avoid Siegfried and he sang well into his 60s in good voice. I know. I heard him twice in Parsifal at that point. If Schager continues sounding as fresh, exciting, and capable in a few years then I will say he is the real deal. He is a mix of youthful versions of Rene Kollo and Robert Dean Smith. We know the former burned out early while the latter's voice has often sounded a bit small in the larger opera house. Given the dearth of heldentenors today, I want Schager to be the real thing.

[@giglistignanipinza]

I heard him live recently as Siegfried & he is indeed the real deal!! Amazing performance :-)

[@fabptitpom]

Heard him in Bayreuth today, and sadly, his voice is not the same anymore. Too much woobles...

[@jeffreymiller4814]

@@fabptitpomI agree. He has sadly blown the core out of his voice relentlessly over-singing like this (8 years ago). The Met Tannhäusers in December 2023 are going to be a major challenge for him (and us).

[@falkfink]

Another Heldentenor to watch out for is Daniel Frank. Sadly he hasn't made it to bayreuth yet, but he's singing parsifal at Wiener Staatsoper soon. I saw him live a few months ago and he has it all. Youthful foolishness, lyricism and heroic outbursts.

[@alainflaux870]

Un envoûtement MERCI

[@MrAristaeus]

Excellent save by the conductor at 03:50

[@donovansim2063]

wait idgi what is he saving exactly

[@alexeigoukov1109]

@@donovansim2063 Probably the tenor, who apparently has started hitting the anvil with his hammer too early. To say for sure one must give a look into the (full) score.

[@donovansim2063]

@@alexeigoukov1109 Ah I see - if it helps i've found the same place in this video at 1:40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWe2m2eJi7h2npY

[@dxhtz]

Well done.

[@Kajottel]

toll! mit das Beste, was ich dazu gehört habe

[@juanmaldonado7352]

A Donizetti's tenor singing Siegfried. What could go wrong? 🙄

[@EliasMillerConductor]

this needs more viewssssssssss

[@stefanreichmann6999]

Toll!!!! Endlich ein Wagner-Tenor der den Namen verdient!!!!!

[@evazauner]

+Stefan Reichmann stimmlich gibts viele, die besser sind. aber bei wagner ist aussehen und ausstrahlung wichtig. und da punktet schager.

[@iubanne]

Stefan Reichmann yes! Du hast recht

[@immanklein]

Eva Zauner Sag mal einen. Ich kenne derzeit niemanden.

[@fridolinbosse852]

@@immanklein Michael Weinius ist derzeit für mich der beste Heldentenor und auch Siegfried ...hab ihn im Ring auch als Siegmund erlebt einer der besten aller Zeiten auf jedenfall stimmlich...

[@tenorjeffrey]

They need to work on getting the audio to line up with the singing and pounding. It is just a few seconds off.

[@mariainesgonzalezpereyra]

Sublime 🎶💗☺️

[@thinkpad20]

Powerful stuff!!!

[@LisztyLiszt]

Greatest living heldentenor on the stage today? Heard him as Tristan and Parsifal in Berlin in '17 and '18. Something else.

[@maciejjeziorski2855]

My grandfathers were Germans. It's my music. Deutschland hoch!

[@klausknulp]

Großartig im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Bravo Euch beiden!

[@rossanachiti9444]

Che 'ganzone'! 👏🏽👏🏻👏👏🏿

[@jamesmorris1657]

Try to keep that energy for the entire opera.

[@shadowdog1977]

Well. He sang the crap outta that, didn't he?

[@Taehan_Kim_1]

Bravo

[@fernandorivera3049]

Wagner was a master musician, also a master dramatist. This is the perfect picture of manhood portrayed, as shakespere would. Forget politics, just aesthetic wise. Wonderful music also of course.

[@janehlers4629]

Oweh! Wo ist Lauritz Melchior wenn wir ihn am dringendsten brauchen😩?

[@andreasruehl]

Ja so ists

[@wirklichkeitsblind7587]

Er wird Geschmiedet und ist bald in seiner ganzen Pracht wieder da 💖

[@jefolson6989]

Melchiors successor has not been born. This fellow is typical of the heldentenors that show up for a year or two and fade away, their voiced a wreck. I dont know where the tradition of singing Wagner with wide vowels and pushing the vibrato out of what. James King always said no matter the composer, try to sing beautifully. ( advice that is not heeded. Beautiful and loud are not the same.

[@mariainesgonzalezpereyra]

Maravilla 💗👍

[@petertenten8626]

Endlich wieder ein Sänger der sich auch Heldentenor nennen kann. Vorzüglich. K.F. Vogt dürfte sich jetzt erst recht auf die Partie des Mime zurückziehen, wobei ihm vermutlich selbst hierfür die Stimme fehlt.

[@konstantinali5690]

Goooood!!!

[@Bizetfan]

Big chaos in the orchestra at the end...and what happend with the piatti? Horrible. But impressive Siegfried.

[@lohsemichael6398]

Zumindest scheint es ihm ja Spaß zu machen, aber schön hört sich anders an. Töne werden nicht getroffen, alles klingt gleich. Für mich ist das nur ein einziges Geschrei, wo ich Gesang nur erahnen kann.

[@jefolson6989]

Craig Ferguson?

[@guillermoruiz6575]

Sehr gute Stimme, obwohl es scheint, dass sie zu viel Druck ausübt.

[@danielrindel7655]

wagner despertando voluntades

[@biancacastafiore8760]

i heard him live at the met as siegfried. was a bit disappointed as i had high expectations based on this video. the tone was mostly clouded, colorless and undistinguished. the horrible staging by lepage didn’t help.

[@johannschneider6372]

Ich weiß nicht, warum ihn alle so toll finden. Er wirkt als Siegfried super, keine Frage, stimmlich scheitert er trotzdem an Wagner. Mag ja sein, dass er lange durchhält und seiner Stimme Kraft verleiht, das Orchester überwältigt ihn an Stärke, Kraft und Dynamik aber noch um ein Weites, seine Stimme hat für mich zwar etwas Schillerndes, aber keine Grundlage, nichts, was Siegfried als wirklich starken Helden darstellt. Es klingt für mich eher, als müsste Schager gegen die Orchestergewalt ansingen als dass er MIT dem Orchester singt.

[@muscledcowboy]

und wer bitteschön macht's besser?

[@IchiganCS]

@@muscledcowboy Lauritz Melchior Eine Aufnahme desselben Stücks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lanVk6SDd6Zrgpo

[@muscledcowboy]

@@IchiganCS ich meinte gegenwärtlich

[@borisvandruff7532]

I didn’t know Hugh Jackman was a heldentenor.

[@ivanessa_schnitzel]

That comment just won the internet....

[@ransomcoates546]

He’s a straining lyric tenor, like all the other would be Siegfrieds. Note the major amplification.

[@grr8048]

@@connermcwhirter8766Yes, a 'major' amplification.

[@stephanhammers4716]

Has nothing to do with a real heldentenor.

[@giuseppestefano6278]

不孬

[@steveokinevo887]

100 mal besser als Siegfried Jerusalem

[@GermanProudly]

This is a singer with potential, but he has odd physical ticks that are quite off putting. Why does he telegraph all low notes by pushing his chin into his throat? While that may help to lower his larynx, it does not allow his sound to come forth freely. He is overly bright at times in the middle voice. The high notes are very exciting, but this is not enough for a true Heldentenor. He must have the whole instrument, from bottom to top. There are NO Heldentenors on the scene today with complete instruments. Too many lyric voices pushed into large repertoire. Now that he is singing at the Met in their Ring Cycle, perhaps he will have come farther than this. I certainly hope so.

[@rilana8430]

Sounds a little bit of Rene Kollo and Siegfried Jerusalem. But i miss some baritonal qualities. He is not a heroic tenor, maby a light jugendlich heldisch.

[@walterharper79]

Won’t last

[@alessandrobarbieri1314]

este chico no aguanta la opera entera ni por todo el oro del Rin

[@stephanhammers4716]

A clown?

[@peteradaniel]

Not a fan. Too much wobble in top. And too screamy.

[@Homoclassicus]

I hear no wobble at all, just a healthy ammount of vibrato perfectly under control, especiall in the middle and high notes. The lower notes are weaker. A big dramatic voice will hardly have very little vibrato.

[@giglistignanipinza]

Couldn't disagree with you more. This is the best heldentenor in the world today. Ideal for the rep

[@operskapevacica1]

I didn't hear a wobble at all.

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

He may well be the best Heldentenor in the world, but this is not up to the singing of the great Wagner singers 1940s-90s. One must work with what one has, but we are short of great Wagnerians and Verdians right now...

[@muscledcowboy]

Schwachsinn!