Die Walküre, Wagner - Wotan's Farewell, James Morris

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  • čas přidán 6. 06. 2012
  • Wotan's farewell to Brünhilde from Wagner's Die Walküre.
    The second opera of "The Ring of Nibelungs" cycle.
    James Morris as Wotan.
    The late Hildegard Behrens as his daughter Brünhilde.
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Komentáře • 232

  • @billyjohnson2495
    @billyjohnson2495 Před 5 měsíci +18

    I'm a 63 Year old retired forklift driver and I have always loved this

  • @trombonecoach
    @trombonecoach Před 2 lety +124

    This is one of the most stunningly beautiful moments in opera, and this rendition is as great as it gets. As an orchestra player, you’ve been sitting in the pit for nearly 5 hours already, played “Ride of the Valkyries”, etc, and then this gorgeous moment comes along, and it’s like a reward for everything else you been through that night. Incredible moment.

    • @samueloverend3517
      @samueloverend3517 Před rokem

      5 hours? They don't let you out in the intermissions? 😉
      If anyone's thinking of seeing Die Walkure, I break it up like this: Act 1 is 60 minutes, Act 2 is 90 minutes, and Act 3 is 60 minutes.

    • @Krapoutchniek
      @Krapoutchniek Před rokem +1

      More than 5 hours. But this includes Das Rheingold and the 2 first acts from Die Walküre

  • @javiermedina5313
    @javiermedina5313 Před 5 lety +98

    one of the best musical moments of the history of the musical art.

  • @detectivefiction3701
    @detectivefiction3701 Před 6 lety +67

    In addition to the sheer singing, I absolutely love the gentle warmth in Morris' portrayal of Wotan. That long embrace with Brunhilde is just so beautiful.

  • @bigfoot99
    @bigfoot99 Před 2 lety +55

    I remember watching this production on PBS back in the nineties. Though I was familiar with some of Wagners music, I had never seen an opera before. I decided to tune in to see what all the fuss was about, and they showed all 4 of the ring operas over 4 nights. To say I was blown away would be an understatement. I had never had any art form yank around my emotions like this before, and the complex plot and awesome music is something that made a great impression on me. I have since seen 3 other complete ring cycles, and never get tired of them. This started me out on becoming an opera fan, and I have never looked back.

    • @colleencupido5125
      @colleencupido5125 Před 2 lety +3

      Craig Hughes: I had the same experience, in watching all those Met "Ring" operas, having it reach down into both my cerebral cortex AND my guts. You might have to look around, but there is a truly dazzling analysis of the Ring Lietmotives AUDIO {I can't read music} I found on several library LPs and copied onto tape. At one time I think I had memorized 30 different leitmotives by sound alone- which is EXTREMELY helpfull when going through the operas, especially the way Wagner deliberately alters them according to the situation {Where do you think practically All movie music comes from?}
      That analysis was by Derek Cooke

    • @jvdesuit1
      @jvdesuit1 Před rokem +1

      @@colleencupido5125 Never forget that Berlioz and Liszt are essentials for Wagner music, the filiation is there. For instance the main theme of Parsifal was actually composed by Liszt on the piano when Wagner was staying at his home before he exiled to Switzerland, he later used it in the opera without of course telling his father in law. Berlioz has been forunner of many musical ideas; in a masterclass for Romeo and Juliet by Leonard Bernstein the conductor points out that in one of the passages (I think it's the garden and balcony scene) Berlioz already uses the twelve tone structure to simulate Romeo's cry of love. He was in a way a precursor to Schoenberg!

    • @colleencupido5125
      @colleencupido5125 Před rokem

      @@jvdesuit1 Ya don't know then what 12 tone structure is, Berlioz wrote MELODY, to say Wagner ripped off Parsifal from Liszt is naked jealousy

    • @jvdesuit1
      @jvdesuit1 Před rokem

      @@colleencupido5125 I suppose Leonard Bernstein in his master class on Romeo and Juliet is a good teacher as well as Alan Walker in his biography of Franz Liszt.

    • @dongiovanni6796
      @dongiovanni6796 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @bigfoot99 I had EXACTLY the same experience! As a young man in his early 20's, I actually knew a fair amount about classical music. But I never cared much about opera. One night, flipping channels on my Sony Trinitron (!) I stumbled midway into this very opera. Three hours later, when it ended, I found I hadn't moved. I'd been transfixed by James Morris, Jessye Norman, Hilde, and James Levine's orchestra. Since then I've been to the opera hundreds of times. I wonder how many of us there are?

  • @sepandghanouni2271
    @sepandghanouni2271 Před 7 lety +162

    I recommend purchasing the box set even if you are behind on your rent

  • @paultrevorbale2440
    @paultrevorbale2440 Před 3 lety +36

    One of most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Simply glorious!

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 Před rokem +1

      One of the best scenes ever !

  • @toddr737
    @toddr737 Před 4 měsíci +3

    A father saying goodbye to his beloved daughter, brings the audience to tears.

  • @adude394
    @adude394 Před rokem +11

    How one could not be moved to tears by this is beyond me. It's like the entire philosophy of opera is synthesized into a few minutes.

  • @wotan10950
    @wotan10950 Před 5 lety +64

    I recently showed this scene to a good buddy - we both have children, including daughters. We both sat there and tried not to show that we were crying. It’s inconceivably heartbreaking to think you’d have to say goodbye to your daughter. Morris’s face at 7:27 says it all, the bottomless regret.

    • @CarlosSDCA
      @CarlosSDCA Před 3 lety +3

      I don't have a daughter but I relate to the feelings of disappointment , then love, then protection, it touches my heart. If had a daugther like you, I'd probably be non-stop sobbing.

    • @Infidelio
      @Infidelio Před rokem

      I hear you. This and the movie Interstellar.

    • @mehitabel1290
      @mehitabel1290 Před rokem

      Well, I'm child-free and it moves me to tears too. But to my mind, it's not about a bloke saying Goodbye to his daughter. That's just the hook for us to hang it on. It's about a god accepting that the world order he wanted and had existed for is lost forever...... Through his own fault.

  • @skagittarius
    @skagittarius Před rokem +7

    This is the best performance I've heard of Die Walküre and unfortunately here it fades out before we hear James sing the famous Abschied. His performance later in this piece is also the best Abshied I've ever heard. I agree with the previous poster, this is as good as it gets.

  • @schneisi
    @schneisi Před 6 lety +42

    This is my Fathers G.Schneider-Siemssen Ring with Otto Schenk, but here one can see Schenk's typical Vienna Emotions , what a wonderful Director.

    • @leventekalmantorok5518
      @leventekalmantorok5518 Před 4 lety +2

      Dear Alexander,
      Bravissimo for your father too!!!!

    • @AP-dd3xp
      @AP-dd3xp Před 4 lety +3

      The best!

    • @alexanderhollnsteiner9006
      @alexanderhollnsteiner9006 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes, his Ring is still the best. I knew him personally, in Seeham and 55 or so years ago his Ring was the first I saw on stage.

    • @nancyfroysland-hoerl4938
      @nancyfroysland-hoerl4938 Před 4 lety +2

      We saw so many of his productions in Wien. A true master! Danke

    • @totallylooney8292
      @totallylooney8292 Před 3 lety +2

      I did not know Otto Schenck directed this! I loved him in the NYE Die Fledermaus when I was a kid. Vielen Dank! Schneider-Siemssen und Schenk.

  • @HanukkahLewis
    @HanukkahLewis Před 6 měsíci +4

    Without a doubt one of the most painstakingly beautiful moments in the entire orchestral repertoire

  • @anotheryou218
    @anotheryou218 Před 7 lety +64

    Love the way the conductor keeps the flow of ravishing music uninterrupted. Plus, the staging so wonderfully expresses the feelings portrayed in the music and the story. Opera isn't just magnificent voices, exquisite music, or acting. It's the entire package. I find this a fine example of that.

    • @sheliahudnall3329
      @sheliahudnall3329 Před 6 lety +5

      I have always called it the earliest multi-media package. Opera was made for a live audience. . . the experience.

    • @norriswilliams2558
      @norriswilliams2558 Před 6 lety +4

      Schneider-Siemssen and Schenk--unbeatable combo!

    • @dominicklicciardi
      @dominicklicciardi Před 5 lety +5

      It’s not the conductor, it’s the composers style. It was written to flow, unlike any music before it.

    • @MrThorfan64
      @MrThorfan64 Před 2 lety

      How very well put on Opera.

    • @dargosian
      @dargosian Před rokem +2

      Not to mention earlier operas also had ballets. Really the ultimate art form, entirely dedicated to expressing every facet of the human heart.

  • @brynjarhoff-lr6hw
    @brynjarhoff-lr6hw Před rokem +9

    God help me! This must be one of the best recording of Wotan,s farwell. Very very beutyfull singing from James Morris.

  • @MWmMorgan
    @MWmMorgan Před 6 lety +13

    I saw this production over a few nights in 1990 on PBS. This scene never fails to cause me to weep. Wagner had his finger on universality with his Tristan chord and it sure worked with me. I never tire of watching it. A super, grandiose production by Levine and the NY Met

    • @abenaandersen
      @abenaandersen Před rokem

      It was designed by Otto Schenk. Levine is the conductor.

  • @nguyenvpicipmu
    @nguyenvpicipmu Před 4 lety +35

    I never imagine a grown man like myself could shed so much tear in one sit.

    • @nguyenvpicipmu
      @nguyenvpicipmu Před 4 lety +1

      @@derek2365 like I said, I had a chance to watch and learn. I believe we human all love beautiful things, so soon I won't be such rare case like you said anymore, when people bend their interests and discover this amazing world.

    • @richardfallon5507
      @richardfallon5507 Před 4 lety +5

      this is one of my favourite teary moments, no other production will ever beat this one. (certainly not any of these modern rubbish productions)

    • @nguyenvpicipmu
      @nguyenvpicipmu Před 4 lety +1

      @@richardfallon5507 thank you for sharing your feeling. I agree with you totally. The newer products often rely on people's immaturity or naive views to squeeze their emotions. This one is different. The masterpiece based its value on the most complex in manifestation yet most simple in nature phenomenon, the fatherly love. My sons is not five yet, but I could already feel the connection and it moves me, like no others did.

    • @hwh1946
      @hwh1946 Před 3 měsíci

      I agree and I never had kids.@@nguyenvpicipmu

  • @Wandervon
    @Wandervon Před 6 lety +29

    Everytime I think of Wotan/Odin, Morris is the guy I see. For now and forever.

  • @nicholasprakash3411
    @nicholasprakash3411 Před 3 lety +27

    The only music that captures the anguish of a father losing his favorite daughter.

    • @lifeisgood3087
      @lifeisgood3087 Před 2 lety +5

      What about Rigoletto's very last scene where Gilda dies in Rigoletto's arms?

    • @nicholasprakash3411
      @nicholasprakash3411 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lifeisgood3087 Excellent scene, and I love Verdi, but Wagner brings so much emotion in the scene. Wagner is like you bring the grandness of Beethoven and the emotion of Italian opera composers.

    • @andrewvincenti2664
      @andrewvincenti2664 Před 2 lety +1

      @@nicholasprakash3411 on the other hand, Wotan exiled Brunnhilde and stripped her on her god powers. Why? Because he couldn't bear to be contradicted. But if he did forgive her, we would be poorer without this music.

    • @nicholasprakash3411
      @nicholasprakash3411 Před 2 lety +1

      @@andrewvincenti2664 Wagner's German gods are far more human than the Italian version of Greek/Roman gods. If this was Zeus he'd allow any Joe to get Brunhilde.

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem

      This father is a true child-killer, not only he destroys this daughter, he also destroys his other two children earlier, and if he is upset to lose Sigmund, elaborate about Brunhilde, he doesn't even mention Sieglinde. A lunatic at best! Wagner managed to write extraordinary music on the very controversial subjects, well, he was an anti-social anarchist at heart.

  • @anotheryou218
    @anotheryou218 Před 4 lety +22

    After the climactic embrace when Wotan begins singing again the music behind him should unwind like never-ending, ravishing waves of love emanating from God. The vocal is exquisitely tender and soothing while the orchestra delivers a seemingly inexhaustible series of thrillingly sweet caresses. Morris holds up his end quite nicely but the conductor here isn't quite there yet. Wonderful nonetheless. Wagner was a ruthless perfectionist but he may not have had a problem with this.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN Před 3 lety +3

      "The conductor" was the usual suspect with a ruthless stranglehold on the Wagnerian repertoire at the Met for almost 4 decades.

  • @wotan10950
    @wotan10950 Před 6 lety +37

    As great as many other Wotans have been, I think Morris tops them all. His majestic voice and regal bearing have left countless people in awe, including me. Christa Ludwig, Hildegard Behrens, and Gwyneth Jones said in various interviews that he was the best Wotan they’d heard. I saw him many times in the theater, including several times in the Ring. I also got his autograph backstage at the Caramoor Festival in a Broadway program.

    • @stevevandien310
      @stevevandien310 Před 5 lety +2

      Dave Glo I've heard varying accounts of Morris in this role. Some even claimed one could hardly hear him at the Met, but his Walkure Wotan was perfectly suited to San Francisco and Chicago. Just curious about where you heard him and how his voice came across there; whether the sound easily rode the orchestra and filled the theater; or was it perhaps not huge, but sufficient for the role.
      Would very much appreciate your opinions regarding these matters.
      I never had the opportunity to hear Morris in person, more's the pity --

    • @wotan10950
      @wotan10950 Před 5 lety +2

      Steve VanDien He was truly great. I heard in tiny roles, as well as his signature roles. I never had the slightest problem hearing him, even with a blaring Wagner orchestra. The only role I thought he cheated a bit was Iago, but not because of volume. It was simply a bit high for him, so the high notes in the brindisi weren’t really there. But as Wotan, the Dutchman, Scarpia, Claggart, no problem with hearing him clearly at the Met. I saw him as Boris in Miami, no problem there either. I can’t imagine who told you that he was inaudible. They certainly need a hearing exam.

    • @omairagamboa7821
      @omairagamboa7821 Před 5 lety +1

      Bienaventurado Dave... Qué privilegio tuviste...

    • @cindyhalik3620
      @cindyhalik3620 Před 4 lety +1

      Dave Glo saw Die Walküre Morris-Behrens /Levine live at the Met back in the mid 70's. Morris' Wotan brought the audience to tearful ovation. Behrens debut as Brunhilde was startlingly youthful, a unique vocal quality you couldn't compare to any other legends, and her emotional body language and expressive features really humanized the role.

    • @AtlasShrugged2005
      @AtlasShrugged2005 Před 4 lety

      Cindy Halik do you mean the mid 90’s? He first sang it at the Met in 1989

  • @MrPorkmann
    @MrPorkmann Před 5 lety +17

    The beauty and honour of doing what is bound by code yet destructive is beyond most modern people.
    Morris was a master.

    • @Polymathes
      @Polymathes Před 5 lety +5

      The end result was that humans could live their lives minus the tyranny of the Gods. Essentially, a new and better world emerged from the destruction of the old. It's a reflection of the natural cycle and it was brought about by Brunhilde's self sacrifice and love, the new code. Wotan's code was flawed and he knew it was coming to an end. That's my take anyway.

    • @patriciakeenan5448
      @patriciakeenan5448 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Polymathes You are correct! .....the end of the Age of the Gods.....& ultimately....the dawn of human love. No other composer, before or since, evinced this so perfectly! It is the Story of Mankind!

  • @jairosantanafigueroa4139
    @jairosantanafigueroa4139 Před 2 lety +98

    Why can’t we have beautifully done productions like this one today instead of the modern nonsense that completely destroys Wagner’s spirit?

    • @andrewvincenti2664
      @andrewvincenti2664 Před 2 lety +18

      Because these fancy directors want to impose their rubbish on us

    • @Fire_ov_Renewal
      @Fire_ov_Renewal Před 2 lety +12

      They have an agenda. Wagner is a Prophet of God.

    • @sepandghanouni7741
      @sepandghanouni7741 Před rokem +10

      Liberalism in arts is the answer you’re looking for

    • @davidsuchodoll4124
      @davidsuchodoll4124 Před rokem +3

      Because every director sees a different aspect in Wagner's music and wants to highlight another aspect of the story.
      Just look e.g. Berliner Staatsoper 2022.
      Just that you do not like the way the opera is presented, does not mean that it's better or worse. Just that the director saw something different then you.
      Maybe being open to new productions could be beneficial to something you might like down the road

    • @davidsuchodoll4124
      @davidsuchodoll4124 Před rokem +5

      And btw. What is "Wagners Spirit" anyway?
      Wagner himself said after the first time the ring was direct "next time we do everything different" 🤷

  • @GaryWh-js5vk
    @GaryWh-js5vk Před 6 lety +62

    Morris is the best Wotan.

  • @MrTS53321
    @MrTS53321 Před 9 lety +34

    Incredible. Mesmerizing. One of the great Wotans.

  • @richardgreen3910
    @richardgreen3910 Před 3 lety +14

    Ten minutes of Wagner has more emotional effect than ten months of Haydn Wagner had a knack or talent to effect emotions than any other composer and cause you to have very deep thoughts about life and what's it all about or for

  • @graffitiwomen
    @graffitiwomen Před 3 lety +7

    Just learned my mom went to middle school with James Morris, Dunbarton Middle in Baltimore MD, life's interesting!

  • @kathyking1694
    @kathyking1694 Před 4 lety +14

    God, I LOVE this!

  • @craigwalters
    @craigwalters Před 6 měsíci +2

    Let me tell you, it takes balls to sing with this much sensitivity at the end of such a long opera with such a huge orchestra under your feet. This is really great!

  • @jmballestra7607
    @jmballestra7607 Před 4 lety +6

    Himmlisch schöne Musik ! Herrlich rührender Wotan ! Sicherlich einer der Höhepunkte aller Opern !!! Es gibt so viele andere bei dem unübertrefflichen Richard Wagner !!!!!

  • @elsalohengrin7777
    @elsalohengrin7777 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Besides that James Morris is a great Bariton, he interpretates Wotan very vunarable and sensitive with his voice .
    Usally the words singing and . . of Wotans demonstrates the Zerissenheit of Wotan.....

  • @josephinehammond9648
    @josephinehammond9648 Před 3 lety +6

    I'm speechless. A father I never had.

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 Před 2 lety

      Josephine Hammond: Well, to have a father like that you need a mother like Erda. Beside would the father you had abandon you in forever sleep on a mountain top surrounded by fire??

  • @daphnewilson7966
    @daphnewilson7966 Před rokem +1

    I never dreamed to see/hear this again in my life. I cried, in the balcony circle in San Francisco, so long ago.

  • @palermofirenze
    @palermofirenze Před rokem +1

    This aria is why this opera is one of my all time favorites. Forty years ago I would listen to this opera with my tiny daughter on my knee and a tear in my eye. "So kuess ich die Gottheit von dir"--is there a sadder moment in all of opera?

  • @Spookey00gmailcom
    @Spookey00gmailcom Před 7 lety +13

    I wish I can find these exact full operas on CZcams...
    I saw them back in 1990 on PBS and have been wanting them ever since.

    • @manolis.799
      @manolis.799 Před 7 lety +6

      If you join the Met Opera On Demand, they are all on there

    • @snowdog03
      @snowdog03 Před 7 lety +2

      I taped it on vhs as it played but lost it in the late 90s. :(

    • @norriswilliams2558
      @norriswilliams2558 Před 6 lety +2

      Available on DVD thru Amazon.

    • @omairagamboa7821
      @omairagamboa7821 Před 5 lety +3

      @@snowdog03 Gracias mil!

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 Před 2 lety

      Yankee Bob: Aw quit being a cheapskate Yankees and break open the piggy bank and buy it on DVD.

  • @carlof.cantaverojr.2606
    @carlof.cantaverojr.2606 Před 4 lety +10

    This Ring Cycle, This Box Set. PERIOD.

  • @elsalohengrin7777
    @elsalohengrin7777 Před 2 lety +3

    Bravo, Bravo, Bravo in every perspective! This Bariton is giving the Farewell, Wotan, a very sensible and loving feature. Singing in piano, and almost lyrisch, and with a lot of fragile emotions, acting fanatastic or as I said in Person to Robertt Hale, after a performance: He is Wotan and not acting!

  • @rosy3385
    @rosy3385 Před 7 lety +9

    Une des plus belles "Tétralogie" avec des voix splendides !

  • @rolfbecker3435
    @rolfbecker3435 Před rokem +3

    Stunning 💗🥰

  • @peterberensdorff
    @peterberensdorff Před 8 lety +13

    The best f Wotans farewell i´ ve ever heard!!! Greatissimo !!!

  • @bvl8343
    @bvl8343 Před rokem +2

    When I hear this piece of music, or see this performance, it gets me every time!

    • @elsalohengrin7777
      @elsalohengrin7777 Před rokem

      Same here..but I have for this also very personal deep psychological reasons

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 Před rokem

      BV L: “It gets me every time!” From where to where does it get you?

    • @elsalohengrin7777
      @elsalohengrin7777 Před rokem

      @@johnpickford4222 As I explained above has very persona/ deep psycological reasons, as I explained on my YT channel in German. I am German. It is a Projection, regarding to CG Jung. It ihas something to do with my father projection snd a Prof where I started a PHD thesis.

    • @dargosian
      @dargosian Před rokem

      @@johnpickford4222 From Wagner's heart to ours, I imagine.

  • @june-hilde2667
    @june-hilde2667 Před 6 měsíci +1

    James Morris has famously said that the sets still exist-in a warehouse

  • @uppityglivestockian
    @uppityglivestockian Před 3 lety +4

    Sublime hasta lo fin... Morris es el perfecto Wotan.... valgame Dios.... como quiesiero oirlo en vivo... pero asi es la vida en este mundo... aprendalo bien jovenes... la vida es muy corto... aprovechelo pronto... porque de aqui, quien sabe....

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 Před rokem +2

    Heartbreaking…

  • @dinakatz4036
    @dinakatz4036 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This scene always brings tears to my eyes. The only other opera that made me really
    cry was Madam Butterfly in the Met a few years ago.

  • @annehart1945
    @annehart1945 Před 3 lety +2

    This is so touching. I love the comment about 'the rent'. A true music lover.

  • @josephhough904
    @josephhough904 Před rokem +1

    So beautiful, tender and profound.

  • @FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930
    @FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930 Před měsícem +1

    Uno de los momentos más hermosos de "" La Walquiria"".!!

  • @crazyorganist1609
    @crazyorganist1609 Před 8 lety +29

    levine is a fantastic wagner conductor. morris sings this so beautifully with a paternal tenderness

    • @MrPorkmann
      @MrPorkmann Před 5 lety +4

      Levine is an hack. Morris is a master.

    • @crazyorganist1609
      @crazyorganist1609 Před 5 lety +4

      @@MrPorkmann Levine is a brilliant conductor

    • @feinstei
      @feinstei Před 5 lety +3

      Too bad he had a "thing" for teen aged boys.
      www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/arts/music/james-levine-metropolitan-opera.html

    • @crazyorganist1609
      @crazyorganist1609 Před 5 lety

      @@feinstei that was sad.

    • @mag-wp6yt
      @mag-wp6yt Před 4 lety

      @@feinstei NY Times....give me a break!

  • @waynejones3870
    @waynejones3870 Před 4 lety +14

    the sadness of a father leaving his daughter forever

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem

      This father chose to leave the daughter, sacrificing her to his own vanity and criminal behavior. He is a schizophrenia sufferer.

  • @helenebroihanne649
    @helenebroihanne649 Před 6 lety +13

    james Morris the best

  • @GaryWh-js5vk
    @GaryWh-js5vk Před 7 lety +6

    Amazing!

  • @damianryan3495
    @damianryan3495 Před 2 lety +1

    Gloriously wonderful... bravo

  • @ruben-xt8hm
    @ruben-xt8hm Před 3 lety +2

    if this video ever gets deleted i will be so broken

  • @williamr5753
    @williamr5753 Před 3 lety +3

    This is incredible.

  • @bettinaalmasan8468
    @bettinaalmasan8468 Před 6 lety +9

    Poor Hildegard Behrens, she died in 2009 of a sudden aortic aneurysm, at only 72. R.I.P.

  • @giambattistaarameoarmell7822

    Alonside Hans Hotter the very best on this opera,I saw him once in concert in Madrid and he was truly impressive,regal and heartfelt

  • @hwh1946
    @hwh1946 Před 3 měsíci

    I remember when Morris made his debut at the Met. I always thought that he would develop into a superb artist. This proves it. And the conducting?!! Levine got busted for something he did decades ago and one of the greatest conductor of the 20th century was kicked to the ground. There is a video floating around of Levine in a conducting seminar with Szell. But this performance is for the ages.Wagner never heard it this good.

  • @Agorante
    @Agorante Před 5 lety +17

    The general public gets it wrong. They think Wagner is just real loud. But in fact the best Wagnerians also sing softly and sweetly as you can hear here. That's why Vickers was so great as Siegmund and Toxzi was great as Hans Sachs.
    Morris sang Wotan many times in San Francisco but I always missed him. I heard Thomas Stewart and Hubert Hofmann and some one else. I heard Morris in several Italian parts but I only heard him live in Wagner at Covent Garden as the Dutchman. He was supernal

    • @gattiniregola
      @gattiniregola Před 5 lety +5

      I was fortunate to see his very first Wotan (well, not his actual first, because I saw the 2nd or 3rd cycle), in San Francisco with Jeanine Altmeyer as Brunnhilde. It was just as stunning as you would imagine. Altmeyer was a wonderful (and underrated Brunnhilde), and this scene definitely required many tissues. It doesn't matter how many times I hear this, it brings tears every single time.
      And to think that many critics thought Morris was a rather wooden actor! Thank goodness this is on dvd.

    • @Edwards-Videos
      @Edwards-Videos Před 5 lety +3

      @@gattiniregola This scene brings me to tears too!

    • @omairagamboa7821
      @omairagamboa7821 Před 5 lety

      You forgot the soft sounds of Ludwig Suthaus's voice...pure Wagnerian lyrical singing, I highly recommend listening to him

    • @wotan10950
      @wotan10950 Před 3 lety +4

      You’re right. There’s a fetish about decibels in singing Wagner. There were no Wagner singers during Wagner’s life - they were bel canto singers, and Wagner himself greatly admired Bellini. Nowadays people scream and bellow the music, and the general public is mesmerized by who has the biggest voice. It’s a little nutty!

  • @jordipanadesribera6890
    @jordipanadesribera6890 Před 5 lety +3

    Audiovisual de gran força evocadora. Gràcies.

  • @pierrejacquart3494
    @pierrejacquart3494 Před 2 lety +2

    Moment émouvant et grandiose

  • @rdred8693
    @rdred8693 Před 3 lety +2

    Handsome man

  • @MrYorickJenkins
    @MrYorickJenkins Před 6 měsíci +1

    Until watching this excerpt I had never understood the deep deep sadness in Wotan but it is a pity it cuts off so abruptly. I wanted to see how he summons Loge, because emotionally there must be a break between the regret and the fixed determination to do what his wife demands. Superb acting, superb singing (so far as I can judge singing) badly let down by whoever designed the costumes with those ridiculous papier mache armour and shield which would hardly pass muster at a children's pantomine. Fire the guy who designed the armour!!

  • @allenjones3130
    @allenjones3130 Před 2 lety +1

    James Morris ranks alongside George London, Hans Hotter, and Thomas Stewart as one of the greatest Wagnerian bass/baritones of all time.

  • @amedeomassa4357
    @amedeomassa4357 Před rokem

    Una delle migliori interpretazioni di Morris

  • @RichyCologne
    @RichyCologne Před rokem +1

    BEST...

  • @Lyia.Doverich
    @Lyia.Doverich Před 7 lety +2

    eu amei essa voz...

  • @brunildehita8714
    @brunildehita8714 Před 6 lety +3

    Bel momento ❤️❤️

  • @barbaragoerlitz1552
    @barbaragoerlitz1552 Před 5 lety +4

    Mike Rowe recommends this man.

  • @joelombrdo
    @joelombrdo Před 3 lety +5

    They say this is a bass baritone voice? Man, he must have an incredible range cause I've been told I'm a bass baritone (and I have a wide range) and I cannot hit the high notes Morris hits here. I've been told Johnny Cash and Steve Kilbey are bass baritones and I can sing along with them so I'm mystified.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN Před 3 lety +5

      His higher range is exactly what makes him a bass-BARITONE as opposed to standard bass (as he was labeled earlier in his career),, making him capable of performing roles like Scarpia, Iago, Amfortas etc.

    • @Sougabrielfelix
      @Sougabrielfelix Před 2 lety +1

      If I'm not mistaken the his highest note here was E4, basses can hit this pretty easily.

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 Před 2 lety +2

      JOHNNY CASH!?!? Talk about a different “ring of fire”!!

    • @hectorbravo6862
      @hectorbravo6862 Před rokem +1

      ​Tuve oportunidad de escuchar y ver a Morris en Don Carlo de Verdi. Tenía el rol de Felipe II.
      No lo escuché en roles wagnerianos.
      Hay una idea equivocada y generalizada sobre la ópera de Wagner. Como que todos se dedican a cantar a todo pulmón tratando de tapar la orquesta y NO ES ASÍ.

    • @joelombrdo
      @joelombrdo Před rokem

      @@Sougabrielfelix then maybe I'm a bass without the resonance

  • @omairagamboa7821
    @omairagamboa7821 Před 5 lety +3

    No puedo dejar de escuchar este aria desde que la descubrí, es la voz de Morris! Cuánta ternura! Más los hermosísimos acordes sinfónicos! Conforman un todo de inenarrable belleza que trasciende toda comprensión...
    Quién dirige?

  • @penelopedare6469
    @penelopedare6469 Před 6 lety +3

    Moving.

  • @nealhines4476
    @nealhines4476 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I hear her crying at the embrace, no?

  • @mariangelsmolpeceres5609
    @mariangelsmolpeceres5609 Před 11 lety +6

    L`Adeu de Wotan i el foc màgic ès el fracment que mès m`agrada ,sempre m`emociona
    aquesta versió ès del Met i tinc completa la tetralogia amb Hildegar Berens i Siegfried Jerusalem en els papers de Brünhilde i Siegfried
    Maria Angels Molpeceres

  • @patrickcollins6830
    @patrickcollins6830 Před 2 lety +1

    Why must we see camera shots that no one in the house would view and are not how the opera was designed or presented?

  • @dorkmax7073
    @dorkmax7073 Před 3 lety +4

    Oh Wagner, why couldn't you just make music and never speak out loud?

  • @finylvinyl66
    @finylvinyl66 Před 11 lety +11

    This Met production had its flaws, but there is no doubt that Morris was a great Wotan.

  • @neto5816
    @neto5816 Před 4 lety +1

    Could you share all the ring dvd with me? Please

  • @inakimendez394
    @inakimendez394 Před 3 lety +1

    Grande y eterno.a muerte .

  • @johannsebastianfu6174
    @johannsebastianfu6174 Před 8 lety +10

    Dear Fpo Oat: Don't lay it all on Wotan. Poor man, he had to obey the witch wife Frika.

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem +1

      He did not have to fall in debt he could not possibly pay to satisfy a vain desire in building a new home, and then succumb to heinous crimes to raise funds. He is a guilty one.

  • @yuenfung8276
    @yuenfung8276 Před 2 lety +1

    👍👍👍😭😭😭

  • @enriquerivera3140
    @enriquerivera3140 Před 3 lety +6

    I was watching a youtube vide,o and one opera expert said that Richard Wagner was the most despicable human being in his age, he explained why and gave lot of reasons, and also confessed that he detested him actually. But he never could not deny what a big artist was Ricard Wagner and how he created this new concept of drama for music, completely parting of traditional concepts of opera on those times and how Wagner understood the music. And based on his thoughts and concepts Wagner was able to imagine and put music that he thought was music. One of this is this opera, this scene. The expert also said that Wagner always looked himself in every opera he composed, like in Tristan und Isolde or Lohengrin or Tannahauser, anyway. Wager was a great artist. One of the greatest artist of western hemisphere and i am totally agree.

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem +2

      Wagner was certainly not the most despicable, what nonsense! He was in fact absolutely harmless and entitled to his views. It's rather a wonder that Karajan who was a true Nazi party member is never spoken of with the same venom as this extravagant composer who was in fact for social justice, fighting in the barricades for it in his youth, for which he had been paying all his life with suffering and misery.

    • @mynameisjack0618
      @mynameisjack0618 Před rokem

      @@cameragiocosa6899 Yeah he used to be a leftist who was friends with anarchists like Bakhunin, but as he got older he became more antisemitic and in the last years of his life spoke positively of Arthur De Gobinau, the guy who’s racist beliefs went on to inspire Hitler

    • @Tolstoy111
      @Tolstoy111 Před 10 měsíci

      @@mynameisjack0618Gobinau wasn’t anti-Semitic

  • @silvanacosimi1951
    @silvanacosimi1951 Před 5 lety +2

    UNA REGIA SUBLIME!!!!!!

  • @flaggerify
    @flaggerify Před 4 lety +2

    Where’s the leb wohl itself?

  • @ChrisStockslager
    @ChrisStockslager Před 10 lety +2

    @Peter Baum -- Does James Morris still sing, or is he retired?

    • @gergelycsallo5133
      @gergelycsallo5133 Před 7 lety +4

      still active

    • @eroupopper
      @eroupopper Před 4 lety +3

      @@gergelycsallo5133 this has to be his best if not greatest performance he has ever done.

    • @wotan10950
      @wotan10950 Před 4 lety +4

      eroupopper Morris had quite a few Bests! His Hans Sachs is also great, and so is his Dutchman. And Claggart in Billy Budd was also terrific. I also have his early Don Giovanni on tape, and he’s so suave, vocally and physically. But maybe you’re right - Wotan is probably his greatest achievement.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN Před 3 lety

      He stopped singing Wotan in 2009 and indeed should have retired completely at that time but unfortunately continued to soldier one with an increasingly dry and unsteady voice up to and including the present time.

  • @itamarferreiradecarvalho487
    @itamarferreiradecarvalho487 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Sua vida vai mal ? Você não está satisfeito com sua vida? Nada dá certo em sua vida? Fácil de resolver.
    Faça uma música como esta de Wagner e sua vida vai melhorar. Com toda certeza!

  • @deanrantz1112
    @deanrantz1112 Před 6 lety +3

    Oh you could have gone to the end.....lol

  • @Ettoredipugnar
    @Ettoredipugnar Před 5 lety +6

    Not bad for a man who sang out of the side of his mouth

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 Před rokem +1

    5:08
    9:03

  • @andreasschuster6539
    @andreasschuster6539 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Min. 2 - the moment when the soul of half of humanity separated from human beings with the Covid vaccination. Vaccinated people would now describe this observation as “overinterpreted”. You understand, they think so AFTER the vaccination?!

  • @TeachUBusiness
    @TeachUBusiness Před 3 lety +2

    I have this and the newest with Deborah Voight. Voight cannot act. She looks like she will start laughing at any time.

    • @wotan10950
      @wotan10950 Před 3 lety +1

      I saw this Ring several times, and also the newer one with Deborah Voigt. I thought she was good. Of course I thought she was much better as Sieglinde than Brunnhilde, but I was impressed with her acting too.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN Před 3 lety +1

      Nor can she sing - at least by the time she performed Brunnhilde at the Met. Dreadful performance from her when Nina Stemme was wowing them all in San Francisco.

  • @garygringo7786
    @garygringo7786 Před 2 lety

    How did he lose his eye? What happened?

    • @ludwigvanbeethoven9021
      @ludwigvanbeethoven9021 Před rokem +2

      In Germanic Nordic beliefs the story tells of how Wotan sacrificed his eye at the well of wisdom for a sip of its waters

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem

      @@ludwigvanbeethoven9021 but Wotan says he sacrificed an eye for Frika?

  • @kathychenyinggao4519
    @kathychenyinggao4519 Před 4 lety +1

    This is how I want daddy to kiss me to sleep every night.

  • @healer378
    @healer378 Před 2 lety

    I don’t understand, He is a God and easily could have blended the law and forgive his daughter. No pain.

  • @weakboson7813
    @weakboson7813 Před 6 lety +1

    wotan clan

  • @MrSkylark1
    @MrSkylark1 Před 6 lety +1

    LISTEN to HANS HOTTER as WOTAN

    • @crazyorganist1609
      @crazyorganist1609 Před 6 lety +3

      MrSkylark1 nowhere near James Morris

    • @derek2365
      @derek2365 Před 4 lety +3

      2 idiots, they are all great, stop comparing, shut the fuck up and appreciate them!

    • @jeffreymiller4814
      @jeffreymiller4814 Před 2 lety

      I agree with Crazy organist. Hotter’s Wotan is not nearly as great as Morris’. His voice was a wobbly, woofy mess. He couldn’t sing a steady tone even in his 1944 Flying Dutchman when he was only 35. Rudolf Bing basically told him after a 1950 Dutchman that he should focus on secondary character parts. Hotter was furious, and left, never to return. He recorded Walküre Wotan under Solti when he was 56, and ruins the set. When I listen to a complete Ring, it’s Solti Rheingold, switch to Leinsdorf/Nilsson GEORGE LONDON Walküre, then back to Solti Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. Hotter is simply unendurable in Walküre. As the Wanderer in Siegfried he’s tolerable, but Windgassen and Nilsson steal that show.

    • @cameragiocosa6899
      @cameragiocosa6899 Před rokem

      @@jeffreymiller4814 hard to believe that about Hotter, I have his CDs and he is great, an absolutely unique amazing voice and singing. A well-known fact is that he gave a finger to Adolf and nothing happened to him, so much of a star he was. It's unlikely that it was for nothing in Germany. He did not have an advantage to live in a quality sound-recording age.

    • @marksmith3947
      @marksmith3947 Před rokem

      @@jeffreymiller4814 you complain about a wobble in Hotter's voice but you like London? Hotter had a huge beautiful voice. I don't get the impression that Morris had a big enough voice but I can't tell from this recording.

  • @larrycox5277
    @larrycox5277 Před 4 lety +1

    Couldn't Wotan have brought Grane in and let him sleep beside Brunn? Where is Grane?

  • @inakimendez394
    @inakimendez394 Před 3 lety

    Wagner no hace arias, eso a verdi.estoy arto de leer la misma poyada.hace momentoss.como en el antiguo teatro griego..solon,euripides o sofoclesss...