Astrid Varnay as Brünhilde Götterdämmerung Immolation Scene (Joseph Keilberth, conductor)

Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung
Bayreuth Festival
Festspielhaus Bayreuth
Astrid Varnay, Brünhilde
1952 Festival
Joseph Keilberth, conductor

[@alfredoloyola921]

A truly heroic,dramatic soprano,this is the sound of. Brunhilde!!!a great dramatic soprano in voice and temperament!!!!! Brava. Varnay!! Brava!! Molto. Brava!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sirdicaudore]

Flagstad and Nilsson were GREAT but Varnay was the Greatest Tragedian of ALL...!!!

[@gerardmignon700]

Totalement d'accord avec vous. Immense Varnay, gigantesque Varnay !

[@dr.xavercarvalho1435]

yo estuve en la 13 linea en la opera cuando ella como Isolda edad 64 prostrando canto Isolda despedída nunca voy esquecerlo

[@brunegilda2453]

She was, indeed!!

[@user-ik3gb2fn5b]

POWER VOICE !!!

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

No es pot fer millor. Chapeau!

[@soprano774]

Bravissima!!!

[@1Ferretti]

Of course one could claim Flagstad and Nilsson as the Wagnerian Quintessensce, but a Trinity would only be possible to be formed accomplishing Varnay at the Walhalla of Wagnerian Singers. What a voice, what an enormous amount of artistry! Artistrid Varnay! Hail!

[@antoniomartinazzo5847]

Thank you for this!

[@alfredoloyola921]

A los 64 anos,ya. Varnay habia cambiaro a la cuerda de mezzo-soprano. El cambio lo hizo en 1969 a los 51 anos.

[@exdiva46]

Nilsson, Varnay, Flagstad, in this order

[@gerardmignon700]

Varnay first

[@laurentdumontel5680]

VARNAY

[@aliena2979]

@@gerardmignon700 Yes, indeed!

[@user-ge5th1ix1p]

Varnay is the best of all!

[@stillstanding6031]

Silly to compare three superlative artists. Varnay brings warmth and intelligence; Nilsson, power and breath control; and Flagstad, a girlish, romantic roundness to the role. I'm grateful for them all.

[@jasonhurd4379]

Varnay's voice and manner were impressive, but like Flagstad, she was far too hieratic and matronly, like a marble statue. Brünnhilde, like Isolde, is not a middle-aged hausfrau. She is a warmly feminine creation, a personification of Goethe's 'ewig-Weibliche', as is, in a wholly different manner, Kundry. Brünnhilde is not a hectoring virago with cold steely top notes a la Nilsson. Neither is she a placid, phlegmatic vocione with virtually no dramatic profile past that of the most vague and generalised sort; a portrayal with which Mme Flagstad made audiences familiar. The only singer who has fully encompassed the character of Brünnhilde, both musically and dramatically, is Frida Leider.

[@zdenekklauda6267]

LOL 😂

[@robertfontaine1603]

J’ai eu la chance de l’entendre plusieurs fois à Bayreuth . La plus grande pour moi ds le crépuscule .

[@robertfontaine1603]

9:41

[@justinv9413]

Autism is a part of the Germanic spirit!