Selected interviews from the last three months, auf Deutsch, from NDR Kultur's Klassik à la carte:
Waltraud Meier
Reinhard Goebel
Note to those who (like me, of late) are of dodgy proficiency: he talks really fast, so choose this one if you need to bang the rust off your comprehension.
Dominique Meyer
Annette Dasch
No guarantees as to content as I haven't listened to them all yet. That's what work is for.
Any highlights from Meier?
ReplyDeleteI was interrupted mid-listen today but the highlight so far is her conversion to Wagner at the (then infamous, now legendary) '76 Bayreuth Ring.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what her repertoire was before Chereau.
ReplyDeleteDebut in Cavalleria rusticana in the same year? If I'm understanding her story correctly (and it's a bit thumbnail), she was not onstage for the Ring but in the audience, which must have been, uh, interesting.
ReplyDeleteAh, right, that's more likely. She would have been 20-something then.
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