The Sunday Telegraph
'Sir Reginald Goodall sets a stately pace but it always sounds natural, and the light-textured instrumental detail provides one of the joys of listening to this performance. It was Goodall, too, in collaboration with the producer Glen Byam Shaw, who set the stamp of nobility on the characters...one is bound to ask oneself if there has been, post-war, a more lyrical and musical Siegfried than Albert Remedios... (his) banter with the Rhinemaidens, his hunting party narration and his aria after he has been wounded are all examples of singing that is bel canto in quality... Rita Hunter's Brünnhilde, a truly great portrayal, reached an apotheosis in this opera...' |
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Third Day of the Festival Play:
The Ring of the Nibelung
Music drama in a prelude and three acts
Poem by Richard Wagner
English translation by Andrew Porter
The Cast
Alberto Remedios, tenor - Siegfried
Norman Welsby, baritone - Gunther
Aage Haugland, bass - Hagen
Derek Hammond-Stroud, baritone - Alberich
Rita Hunter, soprano - Brünnhilde
Margaret Curphey, soprano - Gutrune
Katherine Pring, mezzo-soprano - Waltraute
Norns
Anne Collins, contralto - First Norn
Gillian Knight, mezzo-soprano - Second Norn
Anne Evans, soprano - Third Norn
Rhinemaidens
Valerie Masterson, soprano - Woglinde
Shelagh Squires, mezzo-soprano - Wellgunde
Helen Attfield, contralto - Flosshilde
Chorus: Vassals and Women
English National Opera Chorus
English National Opera Orchestra
Reginald Goodall - conductor
Recorded live at the London Coliseum
6, 13 & 27 August 1977
Producer - John Mordler
Sound engineers - Robert Gooch & Stuart Eltham
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