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What redeemed Bayreuth's Ring was the first-rate musical performance by Conductor Rudolf Kempe and his singers, among them Birgit Nilsson, Aase Nordmo Loevberg, Hermann Uhde, Jerome Hines. While the stars bore familiar names, the surprises of the festival were provided by the talented newcomers. Among them: Berlin-born Anja Silja, 20, singing Senta in The Flying Dutchman, who first came to Bayreuth four years ago as a visiting teenager; Texas-born Thomas Stewart, 32, who was selected for the impressive role of Amfortas in Parsifal after illness forced George London to cancel; U.S. Conductor Lorin Maazel...
...most spectacular when it surged over the orchestra in Siegmund's furious outbursts, but it was also wonderfully expressive in the quieter waters of the first act's tenderly lyrical Winterstuerme, wichen dem Wonnemond. Vickers received stirring if somewhat uneven support from Sopranos Aase Nordmo Loevberg as Sieglinde, Birgit Nilsson as Bruennhilde, and a whole troop of excellent Valkyries, but he was plainly the star of the evening. Soprano Nilsson: "I hope Vickers will be for me what Melchior was to Flagstad...
...except for one good touch: a huge grid of prison bars spanned the stage and rose slowly as the light came up on the liberation scene. But the rest of Director Herbert Grof's production was dull and conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first...
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