“A valiant if not completely successful attempt”
On this day in 1986, the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre.
Brigitte Fassbaender
18 pieces since 2010 — in 6 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
18
pieces
6
roles
3
companies
17
years
3 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Brigitte Fassbaender.
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Hier bleibt Elektra
The Met has finally released the contents of the James Levine 40th Anniversary box sets separately for those of us who didn’t have $500 lying around.
Noch einmal!
Richard Strauss’s brilliantly disturbing Elektra was first performed at the Dresden State Opera in 1909, and arrived in America in 1910 at the Manhattan Opera House. A second American premiere, this time in the original German, was in Philadelphia in 1931 with – and this will kill you – Nelson Eddy as Orestes. Along with […]