Wonderful Hildedard Behrens. I had the great luck to see her live as "Salome" in Madrid, "Die Wlküre" in Barcelona, "Gotterdammerung" in Valencia, "Elektra" in Dresden, "Wozzeck" in New York and the last time in a wonderful Wagner recital. and Strauss at the Teatro Real in Madrid. For me, she was one of the best sopranos of the twentieth century due to her peculiar timbre and her magnificent stage presence.
OMG - I never knew HILDEGARD BEHRENS sang DIE KAISERIN - This was in her obviously early career as she later always sang the FABERIN or The Dyer's Wife, Barak's wife in her he mid to later career. SHE IS SIMPLY DIVINE as glorious as LEONIE RYSANEK at her zenith as the Kaiserin. I heard BEHRENS as the FABERIN in MUNICH with Cheryl Studer as the Empress - a 45 minute ovation following the opera. I will never forget it!
Love Hildegard Behrens, my favourite Wagnerian soprano, immaculate singing.I find that the whole teaching problem lies in having good taste and training yourself by listening to the best and knowing the difference between what is appropriate and not, off course there is plenty more in regard to technique, but definitely I blame the teachers. When I came back from Europe to Canada I was searching for a coach who would help me in sustaining my upper register, unfortunately found no one. Found amazing pianist that could help you with your musicality but if you lack in technique you will not produce musicality. Anyway Lohengrin thank you for these pearls which I pass on to my students and only hope they listen and learn.
Have you heard of the book “Die Stimmenthüllung” by a singer who healed her voice after losing it completely? I will check the name of the author for you. My mother’s favorite book on vocal technique. She taught me from it and it is amazing.
The violin solo is astonishingly beautiful omg The Kaiserin role is probably the most tasty Strauss ever wrote, even more than the Marshalling in Rosenkavalier This opera was unluckily premiered in 1919, right after WWI, and it could not find the place it deserves in the repertoire But it is undoubtedly the best of all Strauss’s operas, the best in XX century and one of the very best ever It slowly but surely will reach the place it deserves Behrens is not a voice for everybody’s taste but she definitely sings a superb Kaiserin with solid legato and low and high notes, it is indeed a very difficult role few sopranos have successfully dealt with Thanks for sharing, it is a very valuable document
I will always associate this opera with coastal trees and springtime. I listened to that shakey but famous recording with Rysanek while walking around Lake Merced in San Francisco, reading my libretto while dodging bikes and joggers. It was a strange experience. I found the opera a bit too bizzare. But looking at this excerpt, it feels much more grounded and dramatic. Behrens rocks my socks man. She is my favorite Salome, and now I ought to listen to her Frau with Solti. Thank you for posting what I assume is a rare gem!! PS, that violin solo in the beginning is pure magic isn't it??
the violin melody is Kaiserin's theme... breaking difficult operas into excerpts allows you to fall in love little by little then enjoy the entire masterpiece
Je me souviens bien de cette retransmission à la télé... Behrens n'était encore connue que pour sa Salomé tout juste révélée à Salzbourg par Karajan, et on l'écoutait en pensant à Rysanek. Mais elle est magnifique, douce et sensible, comme il faut l'être dans ce rôle. Le contraste avec Gwyneth Jones était phénoménal, elle qui brulait les planches à chaque mot qu'elle disait, à chaque pas qu'elle faisait ou chaque regard qu'elle portait. On ne se rendait pas compte alors qu'il s'agissait d'une soirée destinée à devenir historique...
Looking for this one I found on yt full Tristan und Isolde with Behrens and... Bernstein: czcams.com/video/94phiDT5eko/video.html A knock-out like this amazing Keiserin and Keiser.
@@crazyorganist1609 No she wasn't. She had a penetrating voice that allowed it to be heard through thick orchestration, the very definition of a spinto. A dramatic voice like Leonie Rysanek or Gwyneth Jones will ride over the orchestra.
@@theon9575 ...especially the genuine dramatic soprano vocal type seems to become rarer and rarer with all the vocal health instructors who advise singing with the "interest and not the capital of the voice"
@@theon9575 it is Leontyne's actual metaphore, she had said: I learned very early in my career to sing with the interest and not the capital of the voice
@@theon9575 Callas was eating HUGE bites of her salami for more than 20 years since she was 16 years old... phenomenally big Salami, absolutely no comparison with the 3 year-salamis of Souliotis, Sass, Sills and even dame Kiri who was eating very small bites of her salami for a very short period of time
Que superba cantante. Hizo una memorable Isolda y un recital inolvidable en el Municipal de Santiago ópera Nacional de Chile. Great singer and interpretation. She sang a gorgeous Isolde and a wonderful gala recital in Municipal de Santiago, ópera Nacional de Chile. Warm greetings from Santiago,Chile dear friend Lohengrin O.. Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
Su rol como Isolda fue legendario. Y su recital, principalmente de arias wagnerinas, absolutamente inolvidable. Saludos cordiales. Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
Always one of my favorite artists. Certainly not a perfect voice, but always a purpose to her singing. Is this from the performance with Gwyneth Jones as the Faberin? I have it on DVD, but the quality is poor.
And again, if you have a voice with such fabulous capital it is criminal not to use it. My opinion anyway. Informed risk taking? But how can you truly communicate if you don’t take any risks, and isn’t communication what it’s about? That’s why I find some singers boring. I need to hear WHY they are singing.
This was right around her vocal peak IMO, she much more effective in higher lying roles like this. I was never a fan honestly but in the right role she could be very effective. Jones and Dunn are also incredible, the former probably giving one of her best performances.
what amazes me here is that her chest voice sounds brilliant though in the Met Ring my main complaint was that I couldn't hear her chest... she seems one of those singers who cant switch fast to chest and sometimes the low register comes out unsupported
My God. The violin alone! What an astonishing performance.
transcendental, religious, deep psychological
@@LohengrinO -- Spellbinding....Breathtaking....Wow...from Acapulco!
Wonderful Hildedard Behrens. I had the great luck to see her live as "Salome" in Madrid, "Die Wlküre" in Barcelona, "Gotterdammerung" in Valencia, "Elektra" in Dresden, "Wozzeck" in New York and the last time in a wonderful Wagner recital. and Strauss at the Teatro Real in Madrid. For me, she was one of the best sopranos of the twentieth century due to her peculiar timbre and her magnificent stage presence.
One of the greatest ever. She inhibits every role she sings. Just amazing, her voice, her face, her gestures. She is the kaiserin. Bravissima.
Inhabits? perhaps.
OMG - I never knew HILDEGARD BEHRENS sang DIE KAISERIN - This was in her obviously early career as she later always sang the FABERIN
or The Dyer's Wife, Barak's wife in her he mid to later career. SHE IS SIMPLY DIVINE as glorious as LEONIE RYSANEK at her zenith as the Kaiserin.
I heard BEHRENS as the FABERIN in MUNICH with Cheryl Studer as the Empress - a 45 minute ovation following the opera. I will never forget it!
The violin... OMG, what a masterpiece. The montage is beautifu too, they dont make them like this anymore.
She was SO wonderful. An electrifying stage presence
This really brings tears in my eyes!
Frau ohne Schatten my favorite Richard Strauss Opera!
Maybe the most beautiful playing I have ever heard from a concertmaster of an orchestra.
the Melody is also UNBELIEVABLE
Paris Opera, September, 1980: Gwyneth Jones, Hildegard Behrens, Rene Kollo, Walter Berry, Mignon Dunn, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST. BRAVISSIMA.
She is my favorite performing artist of all time.
✨💖✨sending you love, mom would be thrilled.
Love Hildegard Behrens, my favourite Wagnerian soprano, immaculate singing.I find that the whole teaching problem lies in having good taste and training yourself by listening to the best and knowing the difference between what is appropriate and not, off course there is plenty more in regard to technique, but definitely I blame the teachers. When I came back from Europe to Canada I was searching for a coach who would help me in sustaining my upper register, unfortunately found no one. Found amazing pianist that could help you with your musicality but if you lack in technique you will not produce musicality.
Anyway Lohengrin thank you for these pearls which I pass on to my students and only hope they listen and learn.
I love the human voice but I also love these music masterpieces... this particular excerpt from Die Frau I worship!!
There is something bewitching that transports you into a different dimension, I am deeply moved.
Have you heard of the book “Die Stimmenthüllung” by a singer who healed her voice after losing it completely? I will check the name of the author for you. My mother’s favorite book on vocal technique. She taught me from it and it is amazing.
The violin solo is astonishingly beautiful omg
The Kaiserin role is probably the most tasty Strauss ever wrote, even more than the Marshalling in Rosenkavalier
This opera was unluckily premiered in 1919, right after WWI, and it could not find the place it deserves in the repertoire
But it is undoubtedly the best of all Strauss’s operas, the best in XX century and one of the very best ever
It slowly but surely will reach the place it deserves
Behrens is not a voice for everybody’s taste but she definitely sings a superb Kaiserin with solid legato and low and high notes, it is indeed a very difficult role few sopranos have successfully dealt with
Thanks for sharing, it is a very valuable document
...still not better than Morgen's solo violin :p
I will always associate this opera with coastal trees and springtime. I listened to that shakey but famous recording with Rysanek while walking around Lake Merced in San Francisco, reading my libretto while dodging bikes and joggers. It was a strange experience. I found the opera a bit too bizzare. But looking at this excerpt, it feels much more grounded and dramatic. Behrens rocks my socks man. She is my favorite Salome, and now I ought to listen to her Frau with Solti. Thank you for posting what I assume is a rare gem!! PS, that violin solo in the beginning is pure magic isn't it??
the violin melody is Kaiserin's theme... breaking difficult operas into excerpts allows you to fall in love little by little then enjoy the entire masterpiece
Lohengrin O pop
MARAVILLOSA
Stupenda! Fantastica! Divina!
Mesmerizing fantastic wonderful experience. Thanks for the posting
Je me souviens bien de cette retransmission à la télé... Behrens n'était encore connue que pour sa Salomé tout juste révélée à Salzbourg par Karajan, et on l'écoutait en pensant à Rysanek. Mais elle est magnifique, douce et sensible, comme il faut l'être dans ce rôle. Le contraste avec Gwyneth Jones était phénoménal, elle qui brulait les planches à chaque mot qu'elle disait, à chaque pas qu'elle faisait ou chaque regard qu'elle portait. On ne se rendait pas compte alors qu'il s'agissait d'une soirée destinée à devenir historique...
And sustained singing of such quality requires huge physical strength and stamina.
This is an artist of the first rank. May she rest in peace.
and what a Glorious scene this is
💖🙏🏼
Thank you very much for uploading this.
RIP Hildegard Behrens (died #otd in 2009) 🌺🌺🌺
Beautiful beyond description! ❤
Spectacular assumption of the role.
i'm a little too excited now, but: is THERE A COMPLETE VIDEO OF THIS PERFORMANCE?!?
Looking for this one I found on yt full Tristan und Isolde with Behrens and... Bernstein: czcams.com/video/94phiDT5eko/video.html
A knock-out like this amazing Keiserin and Keiser.
if there is I want to buy it. Exquisite!
Just perfect 😍🤩 thank you so much for sharing
I love this scene SOOOO much...
Wonderful!!!!
Very cool voice. She has operatic projection - sounds like Spinto to me.
@@crazyorganist1609 No she wasn't. She had a penetrating voice that allowed it to be heard through thick orchestration, the very definition of a spinto. A dramatic voice like Leonie Rysanek or Gwyneth Jones will ride over the orchestra.
Die Frau ohne Shatten - Richard Strauss
🎹 Gott in Himmel! Has Behrens ever been greater!? 🎹
Oh my god... I thought Schwanewilms was the best, but I must change to Behrens. What a rendition!!
I have never been a fan, but this is great.
Love this opera SO much. Thank you 🖤 is there anybody who can sing like this today?
@@theon9575 ...especially the genuine dramatic soprano vocal type seems to become rarer and rarer with all the vocal health instructors who advise singing with the "interest and not the capital of the voice"
@@theon9575 it is Leontyne's actual metaphore, she had said: I learned very early in my career to sing with the interest and not the capital of the voice
@@theon9575 best metaphor ever though comes from dame Kiri: The Voice is like Salami, every time you sing, you eat a little :D
@@theon9575 Callas was eating HUGE bites of her salami for more than 20 years since she was 16 years old... phenomenally big Salami, absolutely no comparison with the 3 year-salamis of Souliotis, Sass, Sills and even dame Kiri who was eating very small bites of her salami for a very short period of time
@@theon9575 .. when I think of the typical classic soprano lyric, I always thing of Kiri
Que superba cantante.
Hizo una memorable Isolda y un recital inolvidable en el Municipal de Santiago ópera Nacional de Chile. Great singer and interpretation.
She sang a gorgeous Isolde and a wonderful gala recital in Municipal de Santiago, ópera Nacional de Chile.
Warm greetings from Santiago,Chile dear friend Lohengrin O..
Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
No te creo que ella estuvo en chile! ? Que maravilla!
@@mr-cs2ip
Cantó una Isolda memorable y dio un recital inolvidable.
Su rol como Isolda fue legendario. Y su recital, principalmente de arias wagnerinas, absolutamente inolvidable.
Saludos cordiales.
Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
Hola. Maravilla! Gracias! ¿Por favor, hay alguna posibilidad de obtener la fecha, el lugar , el director y todo el reparto? Gracias!
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Always one of my favorite artists. Certainly not a perfect voice, but always a purpose to her singing. Is this from the performance with Gwyneth Jones as the Faberin? I have it on DVD, but the quality is poor.
What a fabulous performance! When and where was it?
Paris Opera, September, 1980: Gwyneth Jones, Hildegard Behrens, Rene Kollo, Walter Berry, Mignon Dunn, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
This is haunting, I find myself back at this video over and over, do you have more information about this particular recording?
only this? have u heard the greatest Keiserin of them all? czcams.com/video/ax487bTj8zE/video.html
Lohengrin O I stand corrected.
Paris Opera, September, 1980: Gwyneth Jones, Hildegard Behrens, Rene Kollo, Walter Berry, Mignon Dunn, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
And again, if you have a voice with such fabulous capital it is criminal not to use it. My opinion anyway. Informed risk taking? But how can you truly communicate if you don’t take any risks, and isn’t communication what it’s about? That’s why I find some singers boring. I need to hear WHY they are singing.
Yes! Well put.
Can someone tell me what opera is this? I don’t know it and it’s BEAUTIFUL!!
Thank you.
Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauß.
This was right around her vocal peak IMO, she much more effective in higher lying roles like this. I was never a fan honestly but in the right role she could be very effective. Jones and Dunn are also incredible, the former probably giving one of her best performances.
what amazes me here is that her chest voice sounds brilliant though in the Met Ring my main complaint was that I couldn't hear her chest... she seems one of those singers who cant switch fast to chest and sometimes the low register comes out unsupported
If I'm not mistaken, isn't Gwyneth Jones the Dyer's Wife?
I think so...
What a strange thing...never heard...sound like Strauss and a little bit like Wagner sometimes...
nothing stranger than a lady without shadow
MARAVILLOSA