One of the finest live performances of Wagner's first great opera! Strongly recommended! A treat and a must!

Great singers. Ward is superb Hollaender, would be nice to hear him alive in any Wagner. Frick also very convincing. The same goes for Jones, young but dramatically convincing Senta with great and beautiful voice. A great treat is also Czech tenor Vilem Prybil as good Erik. There are not many recordings of him, (esp. made in the West), so this is quite a rarity. It was nice to hear Kenneth McDonald as very good Steuermann. Orchestra under Solti is very lively.

This and the other live Wagner recordings with David Ward show what a superb singer he was. for me he was the best Wotan I have ever seen. Like Hotter he was tall but unlike Hotter the voice was steady even until his retirement, no other Wotan or Dutchman has came close to this in the last 40years, (maybe Norman Bailey who showed the same understanding)Ward was a wonderfully warm man and a great character. Britain has been lucky in it’s Wagner singers, although i still believe that Mr. Terfel’s Wagner singing too be hectoring and not very good, but that is only me.