Our new podcast options musical examples from recordings of Das Rheingold starting from 1904 to 2015. In case you’d prefer to look whereas listening, listed here are photographs of a number of the singers featured on this podcast.
Stephen Milling as Fasolt, with Marie Plette as Freia (Seattle 2005). Milling, the nice Danish bass, sang Fafner, with Kwangchul Youn as Fasolt, when Japp van Zweden performed the Hong Kong Philharmonic in Das Rheingold in 2015. (Rozarii Lynch, photograph.)
Hermann Uhde. Pictured right here as Gunther in Götterdämmerung. Hear on the podcast for a clip of Uhde singing Donner. He was additionally a mighty Wotan.
Lorenz Fehenberger. Pictured right here as Pollux in Strauss’s Der Liebe der Danae. Fehenberger sang Froh within the RAI Roma Ring performed by Furtwängler.
Malcolm Rivers as Alberich (Seattle 1976). Seattle’s first malevolent lord of the Nibelungs skilled with Benjamin Britten’s English Opera Group at Aldeburgh. Malcolm Rivers sang the Nibelung in Seattle, in each German and English, from 1975 and 1983 (not together with 1981). (Bob Peterson, photograph.)
Anton von Rooy as Wotan. Photographed in 1899; the clip on the podcast dates from 1908.
Friedrich Schorr as Wotan. Son of a rabbi, Schorr actually grew to become blood brothers with the nice Danish heldentenor Lauritz Melchior (and sure, a recording exists of them singing the Götterdämmerung Blood Brotherhood duet). Schorr was an important Wotan and likewise an incomparable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger.
Noel Jan Tyl as Wotan (Seattle 1975). Seattle’s king of the gods from 1973 by 1977 in each German and English. (Chris Bennion, photograph.)
Monte Pederson as Wotan, with Peter Kazaras as Loge (Seattle 1995). A local of Yakima, WA Pederson sang the Hoffmann villains, Scarpia, and Wotan in Seattle within the ‘90s. (Gary Smith, photograph).
Greer Grimsley as Wotan (Seattle 2013). Grimsley’s Seattle debut, as Telramund in Lohengrin in 1994, proved that the New Orleans-born bass-baritone had nice potential as a Wagner singer. He sang Donner and Gunther in Seattle’s 2001 Ring earlier than graduating to Wotan for the 2005 cycle. His position debut gained him Seattle Opera’s “Artist of the 12 months” award. (Alan Alabastro, photograph.)
John Tomlinson as Wotan (Bayreuth 1991). This nice British bass sang at Bayreuth each summer time from 1988 to 2006.
Marjana Lipovsek as Fricka. Pictured right here with John Tomlinson at Munich’s Bayerischen Staatsoper in 2002. Audio clip on the podcast recorded in 1989 (at that theater).
Stephanie Blythe as Fricka, with Greer Grimsley as Wotan (Seattle 2013). Blythe sang her first Fricka in Seattle in 2000, the summer time of the “half-Ring” earlier than the total cycle was unveiled in 2001. She’s sung many nice performances in Seattle, the place her 2008 Amneris in Aida earned her “Artist of the 12 months.” (Rozarii Lynch, photograph.)
Hans Breuer as Mime. Additionally a stage director, later in life. Seattle Opera’s 1984 Ring was directed by one other singer who additionally specialised in Mime, Ragnar Ulfung.
Dennis Peterson as Mime (Seattle 2013). (Alan Alabastro, photograph.) After singing Mime in Seattle in 2009 and 2013, Peterson sang Mime for Minnesota Opera in 2016, when Brian Staufenbiel’s manufacturing was first created.
Paul Kuën as Mime.
Helmut Pampuch as Mime. Photographed in San Francisco in 1983 or 1984. Audio clip on the podcast recorded in Bayreuth 1991.
George Shirley as Loge (Covent Backyard 1978). Shirley sang the fireplace god in London’s Colin Davis/Götz Friedrich Ring in 1974, ’75, ’76, and ’78. Seattle’s first African American Wagner singer was Simon Estes, Hagen in 1977. (Donald Southern, photograph.)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink as Erda. This nice contralto sang at Bayreuth between 1896 and 1914. She grew to become an American citizen and sang on the Met by 1932.
