Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Ligendza, Cox, Ridderbusch, Mazura, Martin, Reynolds, Neidlinger; Stein. Bayreuth, 1972

$16.95

Listen to a Sample:

Catarina Ligendza saves the best for last, delivering a Götterdämmerung-Brünnhilde that is both human in scale and Wagnerian in sensibility.
The real achievement of Jean Cox's Siegfried is the sheer beauty that he maintains in his sound throughout the many hours of super-human singing.
Karl Ridderbusch's suave Hagen was no stranger to Bayreuth audiences, and he demonstrates in this performance why he owned this role for so many years.
The insight and sensitivity Franz Mazura brings to the role of Gunther shines a human side on this character that is often missing.
Ursula Schröder-Feinen makes an impressive cameo as the Third Norn.