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Frankfurt Opera Ring Cycle
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Terje Stensvold (Wotan), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Kurt Streit (Loge), Martina Dicke (Fricka), Barbara Zechmeister (Freia), Magnus Baldvinsson (Fafner), Alfred Reiter (Fasolt), Hans-Jurgen Lazar (Mime), Dietrich Volle (Donner), Richard Cox (Froh), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Britta Stallmeister...
Stensvold is a relatively late-starting but true-sounding baritone Wotan who phrases the god's pronouncements well. Kurt Streit has not lost the subtlety of his Ferrando in his refreshingly... —
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Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring of the Nibelungen
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
the aspects praised most highly in the complete sets by both reviewers are the very ones specifically showcased on this new disc. There’s the expertly judged conducting of Sebastian Weigle,... —
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Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Marsh (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Magnús Baldvinsson (Fafner), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Kateryna Kasper (Woodbird)
Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle conducts superbly, bringing many original and fine ideas to this amazingly fresh score and building up great momentum over entire acts...[Bullock's] awakening is shrill and insecure,... —
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Frank van Aken (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Susan Bullock (Brünnhilde), Terje Stensvold (Wotan), Martina Dike (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Anja Fidelia Ulrich (Gerhilde), Mona Somm (Ortlinde), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Waltraute), Bernadett Fodor (Schwertleite), Christiane Kohl (Helmwige),...
The great achievement here is Terje Stensvold's Wotan, doubl remarkable in that the Norwegian bass-baritone was 67 years old at the time...Stensvold understands exactly how to pace the long... —
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Gregory Frank (Hagen), Claudia Mahnke (Waltraute/Zweite Norn), Johannes Martin Kranzle (Gunther), Anja Fidelia Ulrich (Gutrune), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Britta Stallmeister (Woglinde), Jenny Carlstedt (Wellgunde), Katharina Magiera (Flosshilde),...
Weigle, an experienced Wagnerian, paces the opera well, with dramatic thrust and epic expansiveness...Bullock's Brunnhilde has the spirit and plenty of it, but vocal strain is more apparent... —
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra & Choir of the Frankfurt Opera, Sebastian Weigle
