ʻO Wolfgang Windgassen (Wolfgang Windgassen) |

ʻO Wolfgang Windgassen

Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma 1939 (Pforzheim, Pinkerton part). Ma hope o ke kaua, hīmeni ʻo ia ma ka Stuttgart Opera House, kahi āna i hana ai a hiki i ka hopena o kona ola (i ka makahiki 1972-74 ʻo ia ke alakaʻi noʻeau o kēia hale keaka). Loaʻa ka kaulana ma ke ʻano he unuhi nui loa o nā ʻāpana o Wagner (Tristan, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Sigmund ma Valkyrie). Ua hana mau ʻo ia ma ka Bayreuth Festival (1951-71). I ka makahiki 1955-56 ua hīmeni ʻo ia ma Covent Garden (Tristan, Siegfried). I ka makahiki 1957, ho'omaka 'o ia i kāna hana mua ma ka Metropolitan Opera (Sigmund). Ma waena o nā ʻāpana ʻē aʻe o Othello, ʻo Adolard ma Weber's Euryant. I ka makahiki 1970 ua hoʻokani ʻo Windgassen ma Kapalakiko ma Tristan a me Isolde me Nilsson. ʻO Florestan ma Fidelio (conductor Furtwängler, EMI), Siegfried ma Der Ring des Nibelungen (conductor Solti, Decca).

E. Tsoodokov