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to a LEGEND ,
Adieu LUMIÈRE...
In
Memoriam: Hildegard Behrens
http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/agosto/20/lirica_piange_Behrens_grande_Isolde_co_8_090820018.shtml
The opera world
weeps for La Behrens , the great Isolde
MILAN - She will be remembered for her Wagnerian heroines. The
German soprano Hildegard Behrens, died yesterday in Tokyo to 72
years of an aneurysm. A native of Oldenburg Varel and a Master
of Law in Freiburg, she sang with great success at the Bayreuth
Festival in the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Ring. She
launched her international career at the Met in New York in 1976
as Giorgetta in Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini. In 1977
she starred as the protagonist in Richard Strauss' Salome
at the Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan. Under
Leonard Bernstein she took the lead in Tristan und Isolde .
In Salzburg in 1999 her performance as the woman 'R' in Cronaca
del lugo by Luciano Berio, a role that he had created for
her, was greeted with ovations. Behrens, who was taken to a hospital
in Tokyo, was to perform tonight in a recital at Kusatsu Summer
Music Festival. Her remains will be cremated.
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Saddened
by her passing,
we celebrate her life.
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Opening music
LISTEN / WATCH!
(Thanks to all who posted media
on YouTube and allowed
embedding of same.)
Excerpts from:
"Dich
teure Halle"
-Tannhäuser
Immolation scene
-Götterdämmerung
Final scene
- Salome
"Allein,
weh ganz allein"
"Orest!"
- Elektra
"Mild
und Leise"
-Tristan Und Isolde
"Jojohoe"
-
Der fliegende Holländer
"Komm,
Hoffnung"
-Fidelio
"Wiegenlied"
-
Wozzeck
"Bien,
mon fils!"
-
Guercouer
Aria
from Jenufa
- Behrens as the Kostelnicka
Aria
from Cronaca del luogo
- Behrens as the Woman
"R"
"Und
ob die Wolke sie verhulle"
-
Der Freischutz
"Es
gibt ein Reich"
-
Ariadne auf Naxos
"Song
to the Moon"
-Rusalka
(sung in German)
"Da
liegt nun der gute Topf..."
- as
the Mother in Hansel und Gretel
"Ein Handwerk verstehst..."
- as
the Dyer's Wife in
Die Frau ohne Schatten
"Seit
ich ihn gesehen"
- from Schumann's
Frauenliebe und Leben
"Bist
du bei mir"
"Träume "
(
Monte Carlo 1978)
- from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder
"Leb
wohl"
- sung by James Morris
VIDEOS
METROPOLITAN
OPERA:
IMMOLATION SCENE-
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
DIE
WALKÜRE - Act3
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA:
DIE
WALKÜRE - Act2
DIE
WALKÜRE - Act3
FINAL DUET - SIEGFRIED
DUET
-GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
ELEKTRA
"ALLEIN, WEH GANZ ALLEIN"
MET
TRIER
ANTIKENSPIELE
TEATRO
COLON
"OREST!"
- MET
"OREST!"
- PARIS OPERA
FINAL
SCENE - MET
"Liebestod"
- from 1981 recording with
Leonard Bernstein, cond.
TRISTAN
UND ISOLDE
"Vissi d'arte"
TOSCA
- MET
Elettra's aria
IDOMENEO
- MET
Kusatsu Festival /
Japan 2007:
PIERROT
LUNAIRE
MASTERCLASS
MITTERNACHTSTÜCK
BEETHOVEN
FESTSIPELE- BONN
BERLIN
BEHRENS
on the PASSING
of PAVAROTTI
BEHRENS
on HER TOSCA
with PAVAROTTI
BEHRENS
on the MET's
100th ANNIVERSARY (1983)
CURRENTLY STREAMING:
- FREE and under license from OPERA TODAY:
FIDELIO
with HILDEGARD BEHRENS,
KARL BÖHM conducting
(includes complete libretto)
A PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY
The Very Best of
HILDEGARD BEHRENS
Götterdämmerung
Die Walküre
Salome
Elektra-Boston
Symphony
ELEKTRA -Montpellier
FIDELIO
(Böhm)
FIDELIO (Solti)
WOZZECK
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INTRODUCTORY
REMARKS
by HILDEGARD BEHRENS
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