Leonie Rysanek & James King in Die Walküre - Part 1

Live At Musikverein in Vienna, 1986
Georg London Gala

[@cmg1111]

Man! She had such a gigantic voice! We’re really missing this kind of quality dramatic singing these days 😪

[@wotan10950]

Cailin Gudio I heard Rysanek in both her soprano and mezzo roles. A great actress, but her voice never struck me as particularly large. The sopranos who really pinned me to my seat were Eva Marton, Gwyneth Jones, and Birgit Nilsson.

[@jefolson6989]

king comes out on top. His sound is essentially the same as it always was, and continued to be until the end. Really remarkable with so many Wagner "miles" on it. Rysanek by this time was like 3 different singers. (All three had some rough spots). But the blazing top flashes through a couple of times!.

[@ER1CwC]

@@wotan10950 I’m guessing that her upper register was much bigger than her middle and lower registers though?
To your point about Rysanek v. Nilsson, it made perfect sense that Rysanek almost always took the lighter roles (with higher tessituras) whenever they appeared in the same operas.

[@1sumiresan2]

Wunderbar die Beiden!!!

[@susannereitinger2276]

Mein Gott waren die beiden gut! Beide schon Anfang 60 und doch ! Was für ein Feuer und welche Leidenschaft! Ich liebe das Kleid von Frau Rysanek, keines hätte ihr besser gepasst! Immer wieder ein Highlight!!!!

[@tenorschofield]

tHANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS DIVINE MATERIAL WITH TWO OF THE BEST EVER WAGNERIAN SINGERS!!!! Leonie Rysanek and James King; they both sounded great even if in 1986, wow!!!, bravo, they are both a "master class" onstage.Thank you very much again!!!!

[@jeffnisly5851]

James King is Tom Hanks at 4:30. He still has that voice even at this age, but man, he sounded so much better in the 1968 Ring. That Walküre is the one that I first heard him sing, and I still love that record.

[@harryroldie4698]

clear the cellist at the right is a fan she keeps looking at Rysanek... who can blame her though! her performance is wondorous 1:20-4:18

[@pilouetmissiou]

Parmi les plus belles pages de la musique....jeune, je savais ça par coeur...

[@AfroPoli]

EXCELLENT thanks for the upload. I have this on VHS, and I always wondered why nobody had uploaded it to youtube.

[@omairagamboa7821]

Bravo! Wuao Winterstürme!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@FerroviPhil]

Unequalled in these two roles!

[@martablanco7672]

Pensar que cante a su lado. Que lindo volver a verla. Esto es de hace bastante años no?

[@yohangouraantoni3903]

que maravilla cuando cantaste con ella?

[@wotan10950]

Siegfried’s grandma and grandpa.

[@hbeer54]

?????

[@grr8048]

Heidrun Beer He is being sarcastic about the singers' age.

[@tantris39]

@@grr8048 He is showing his ignorance as to what it is all about.

[@derek2365]

@@tantris39 c’on dude the old man was just telling the joke, calm down!

[@tantris39]

@@derek2365 No jokes accepted at the expense of those two!!!!

[@jotge.3444]

Zum Teil sehr schön und lyrisch gesungen. Vor allem die Rysanek. Den King habe ich besser gehört. Zuviel forciert. Keine runden hohen Töne mehr. Hatte er sie überhaupt noch?

[@rudolfsmolej9495]

Alleine sein zeitgleich gesungener Caravadosi, bzw. Paul oder erster Siegfried in Wien geben Dir die Antwort.....