Excellent performance! I like it

Shippers was a great conductor and this Walkure confirms my opinion.

I have information that I consider unreliable, largely based on the roles assigned, and the length of time since some of the singers had appeared at the Bayreuth Festival. Also, my source listed “Leonie Rysanek” as Gerhilde, when he clearly must have meant her sister, “Lotte Rysanek”, who continued in comprimari repertory until her retirement.In any case, I was told that Rysanek was Gerhilde, Elsa Cavelti (Helmwige), Gertraud Hopf (Ortlinde), Erika Schubert (Waltraute), Alice Oelke (Siegrune), Hanna Ludwig (Rossweisse), Elisabeth Schartel (Grimgerde) and that Grace Hoffmann doubled Fricka in Act Two with Schwertleite.My suspicion is that Rysanek was Helmwige – the role she did at Bayreuth and Vienna, and that either Cavelti or Hopf was Gerhilde with the other one being Ortlinde. The mezzos seem acceptably assigned, though these are different than roles they did at that time at Bayreuth.I enjoy this video enormously, but the companion performance of TRISTAN, with Nilsson, Windgassen and Hotter is the prize here.

I think you’ll find that the Hunding is Gerd Nienstedt, not Josef Greindl.