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CLASSICAL NOTES.
WITH THIS RING -- For decades, Wagner fans have assumed that, first, Georg Solti's Decca recording of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (made in Vienna from 1958 to 1966) was the finest one available, and, second, that it was the first set ever to be recorded in stereo. But the release (on Testament) of "Siegfried," the first installment of a complete cycle recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in 1955, has challenged both of those assumptions. This "Ring" was also a Decca product, but it was quietly shelved, partly because the powerful producer John Culshaw was beginning to question the appeal of bringing live recordings, complete with their unavoidable mistakes, into the increasingly high-tech modern home. Soon he would embark upon his studio "Ring" with Solti--which, in its immaculate perfection, is as much a product of its time as Philip Johnson's glass-box architecture.
"Siegfried" has always been the least beloved of the four operas, but you would never know it from the 1955 recording, ...
- `Siegfried' Rings True // Lyric Production's Slow Start Swells to Rapture,...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Wynne Delacoma January 26, 1995 700+ words
...spots, Tuesday's unveiling of "Siegfried," the third installment in Lyric...production of Wagner's four-part "The Ring of the Nibelungs" cycle, could...us in on what has gone before. "Siegfried" is especially so. The first act...
- Long road to ecstasy; OPERA: Wagner's Ring: Siegfried, Royal Opera House.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) October 3, 2005 700+ words
...FIONA MADDOCKS HAD this review of Covent Garden's new Siegfried been written after the first two Acts, it's mood would...for the climactic union of that blessed pair of virgins, Siegfried and Br'nnhilde. The British tenor John Treleaven as the...
- Francois Girard gets into that Siegfried state of mind.(Forging the Ring)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne September 22, 2004 700+ words
...the conviction that Siegfried "is the young hero...opera in Wagner's Ring cycle is, director...myth. On the surface, Siegfried is like a fairy tale...taking on one of the Ring operas, he chose Siegfried because, as he puts...
- Golden `Ring' // Mehta, Lyric Creates A Dynamic `Siegfried'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times WYNNE DELACOMA January 22, 1995 700+ words
...in this year's "Siegfried," opera lovers...of Lyric's new "Ring" cycle will open...difficult music. " `Siegfried' is the development...take the whole `Ring' as a sonata form...completely realistic `Ring,' " said Mehta...have two American `Rings' looking similar...
- Thrilling Ring is lederhosen-free; OPERA Siegfried; Gotterd"mmerung Festival...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Maddocks, Fiona August 18, 2003 700+ words
...production team - standard Ring practice; there's...this was an exceptional Ring, bristling with musical...strutted and at which Siegfried is murdered by Hagen...operas, the third, Siegfried, in its odd playfulness...that Wagner meant the Ring to be a rich feast for...
- `Siegfried' shines despite shortfalls Lyric opera's performance was third of...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TOM STRINI March 16, 1996 700+ words
...as the evil gnome in "Siegfried." The British tenor...why he drove his ward, Siegfried, to murder. If Jerusalem...little too casual as Siegfried, Eva Marton was a little...Chicago will complete the "Ring" cycle with "Gotterdammerung...will stage two more "Rings," with some cast changes...
- Forging the ring: for a project as big as Siegfried, the COC needs to be...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne December 15, 2004 700+ words
...s last and only staging of Wagner's Siegfried, though for all the differences between...denizens from another world. Act I of Siegfried, according to Wagner's specifications...creating a physical geography in which Siegfried forges his sword, kills his dragon...
- Richard Wagner.(Richard Wagner: Siegfried)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Eden, Brad March 1, 2006 700+ words
...Richard Wagner. Siegfried (from Der Ring des Nibelungen...This review is on Siegfried only, performed...This particular Ring cycle was staged...about recovering the ring and the gold from the dragon. Mime and Siegfried appear, and after...
