Joan Sutherland & Jon Vickers - Wagner
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2009
- Joan Sutherland - Jon Vickers - James Pease
The Mastersingers of Nuremburg, Act III
Prize Song
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
5 May 1957
Vicker’s voice was one of a kind. His artistry was first rate. This is a treasure ❤️
Woodduck20
I saw Joan in the 60s , 70s and 80s and in Lucia. Stuarda was stunning.
Her voice was huge.
Regards-John
I had given up of finding Vickers singing Walther …grazie infinite 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This clip makes me wish that Jon Vickers had sung, or at least recorded, Die Meistersinger.
Yes indeed.
it's hard to believe they're so younger here. they both sound like they're in their late 40s
This is gorgeous, all three of them phrase so beautifully. Joan as Eva in English is stunning.
Sutherland is a real delight! Interesting there isnt one single swoon or swoop in her singing. On the contrary her attack is amazingly clear and yet the tone remains shiny. What an instrument that was!!
This excerpt is an absolute treasure! Thank you so much to whoever preserved and posted it.
@65attila
she would have made a wonderful brunnhilde with that shining upper register.
SACHS
Good Day, my Eva!
Oh, how splendid you look,
how sweet and fine!
The hearts of old and young surrender,
when you so brilliantly shine!
EVA
Master, 'tis not so alarming:
though all be well with the dress,
some fault yet the foot may be harming,
unseen the shoe may press.
SACHS
The wicked shoe! But don't blame me;
you would not try it yesterday!
EVA
Not so! I'd too much faith, you see;
the Master did my trust betray.
SACHS
Oh, that's a shame! I'll set it right!
Just show me where the shoe is tight.
EVA
Whene'er I stand, it will away;
but when I move, it makes me stay.
SACHS
Upon the stool here place the shoe,
and I will see what I can do.
What's wrong with that?
EVA
Too broad, you see!
SACHS
Child, that is nought but vanity;
the shoe fits tight.
EVA
I told you that!
'Tis on my toe that it hurts me so.
SACHS
Here left?
EVA
No, right.
SACHS
Here at the heel?
EVA
More on the instep.
SACHS
What, there as well?
EVA
Ah, Master! Know you then better than I
where the shoe doth pinch?
SACHS
I wonder why, if it's too broad,
it still pinches you so!
EVA
Ah!
SACHS
Aha! 'Tis here! Now the reason I know.
Child, you are right: something is wrong.
Be patient, the fault I'll mend ere long;
stay where you are; the shoe on the last
I will place for a moment, your pain will soon pass.
Always cobbling, that now is my lot;
by night, by day, my toil ceases not.
Child, give heed, and hear what I have thought:
my cobbling must to an end be brought;
so listen:-I'll woo you, Eva, today,
some fame as a poet may come my way.
You do not hear? Come now, reply;
'twas your suggestion that I should try!
Well, well! I see!-
"Stick to your shoes!"
Lately I heard a most wonderful song!
Only today it charmed my ear:
Would that I now another verse might hear!
WALTHER
"Lured from their dances
the stars glided down,
and sparkled fair
about her hair;
on her attending,
beauty lending,
and round her head there shone
a starry crown."
SACHS
Hark, child! That is a Mastersong!
WALTHER
"Wonder on wonder
was born on the height;
ere night was gone,
a two-fold dawn
was rising o'er me
as before me,
like suns, her eyes so bright
greeted my sight!"
SACHS
Such songs are sung now in my own house!
WALTHER
"Oh, hallowed scene,
that like a spell my footsteps drew!
Lit up by sunbeams richly shed,
the wreath grew pale and bloomed anew.
Tender her mien,
her hand wove its leaves round my head:"
SACHS
Let's see, now perhaps the shoe is right?
I really think my labour's over!
Now try, stand up!
Say, how is it now?
WALTHER
"where love hath bound me,
there fame hath crowned me
I drink from radiant eyes
all joys of paradise,
in fair love's dream!"
SACHS
The life of a cobbler's nothing but woe!
And were I not a poet too,
henceforth I'd never make a shoe!
No rest, never free, to all a slave!
Too tight for this one, for that one too loose!
From every quarter nought but abuse.
It flaps perhaps, or nips, or grips!
The cobbler must have wit unending,
patch up what's in need of a mending.
And if he be a poet too,
for that not a moment of rest will he know;
should he perchance a widower be,
a fool he must be, all agree;
the youngest maidens, when men are short,
regard him as fitting for their sport;
he sees the trap, or if he sees not,
all one if he agrees or not.
And then, if he smells of pitch,
they call him fool, rascal and wretch!
Yes! Most of all for my prentice I grieve;
for no heed to me will he pay:
old Lene's driving him out of his wits,
and she stuffs his stomach all day.
Now, why the devil is he away!-
EVA
O Sachs! My friend! How kind thou art!
How may I praise thy noble heart?
Thy love alone has taught me,
what were I but for thee?
A child now would I still be,
had thou not wakened me.
Through thee my wisdom I have won;
through thee my spirit I have known;
through thee I wake,
through thee I make
me noble, brave and true;
through thee I'm born anew!
Ah, dearest Master, chide at will!
My fancy was the right one still;
and if I had a voice,
and were my heart my own;
'tis thou would be my choice,
the prize thine alone.
But now I feel a power
that tears my will in twain;
and were I wed this hour,
all choice would be in vain:
to stem the torrent in my heart!
You, dearest Master, would not dare.
thanks so much for this!
Grazie mille 🙏
I think Dame Joan could have sung some Wagner roles beautifully. Vickers of course is in his Fach
Vickers made his house debut in 57 but did not sing Walther in a staged production of The Mastersingers. That role was tsken by the veteran Erich Witte, though Sutherland did sing Eva with Pease as Sachs.
Yes, Dame Joan could have continued to sing Wagner if she had chosen that direction..
I’ve heard from multiple people that Sutherland had the biggest voice they ever heard live
@raigekimaru
Brunnhilde and Isolde might have benn too heavy for her but ythanks for your
thoughts.
Regards-John
Interesting the amount of "bite" in Vickers' voice at this young age.
Actually, I think the weakest diction here is Vickers' (I can barely understand a word of the verse of the Prize Song)--but who cares? Wagner is not a diction class, and to hear this music sung like this is a privilege! Pease is excellent, but that first attack of Joan's on "Oh Sach, my friend, how kind thou art!" is astonishing in bite and size! This is not from a complete performance, I believe, but a program of excerpts.
what in English?
I believe Covent Garden chose to present Wagner in English in the post-war years given Hitler's preference for him and contemporary British sensitivities.