A favorite Wagner performance from Der Ring

As a frequent visitor of Parterre’s Jones Home (ah, the early internet!), I’d be remiss not to share this favorite clip of two queens maximizing their joint slay.

Dame Gwyneth burns white hot – tectonic and elemental as great Wagner should be – while a babyfaced Waltraud Meier smolders, only a few years from becoming a major Isolde herself. And what a wig!

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