The final day of the Dusseldorf cycle finds everyone in good form - except Astrid Varnay who was indisposed. Martha Modl (a singer for whom Varnay had substituted a number of times) agreed to replace her good friend, despite the fact that she had not sung Brunnhilde for quite a while. As Andy states above, Modl was vocally past her prime by this time. Her voice is rarely steady and one can hear her really working to keep her vocal equipment in gear. She ducks the top C at the end of the Dawn duet (but so did Flagstad and Traubel) and she occasionally reworks the vocal line to avoid a consistently high tessitura. Her experience in this repertoire though is unsurpassed and she still makes a powerful impression.Hopf has a wobble himself, but knows the ins and outs of the score as well as Modl does. Symonette is much better here as Hagen than as the three Wotans. Giongio is an average Gunther (his big vocal moment in the Second Act is one of the drop-out casualties.) Sommer continues her excellent work as Gutrune. Grace "Goldie" Hoffman is marvelous as Waltraute, the voice smooth and even from top to bottom, the text sensitively delivered. The Norns and Rhinemaidens are all very good.Quennet makes no cuts; the "few drop-outs" are mostly in the Second Act and involve the chorus (the welcoming of Brunnhilde is missing). The sound is very listenable with only a few moments of off-mic singers. This is a good though not great conclusion to an uneven cycle.