Description:

Pros:

• All-over excellent singers, well-cast in their roles.
• Anne Evans brings ethereal grace to the role of Elsa. Despite the youthful quality of her soprano, she reveals in the confrontation with Ortrud that she is no shrinking violet.
• Alberto Remedios brings Wagnerian elegance to the title role.
• Leonie Rysanek delivers a tour-de-force as Ortrud. If the voice lacks the sheen it had twenty years prior, she more than makes up for it with her signature intensity.
• Donald McIntyre manages to turn Telramund into a somewhat sympathetic character.

Cons:

• None to mention.

In Stereo

OD 11776-3