Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Remastered 2021) [Live at Auditorio del Foro Italico, Rome, 1953]

Featuring

Ludwig Suthaus
Alfred Poell
Alois Pernerstorfer
Josef Greindl
Martha Mödl
Sena Jurinac

Margarete Klose
Hilde Rössel-Majdan
Magda Gabory
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Hilde Konetzni
Ludwig Weber
Josef Herrmann*
Kirsten Flagstad
Elfriede Marherr
Frida Leider
Leo Blech
Coro di Roma della RAI
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Orchester der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin
Richard Wagner
Miscellaneous

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Recording & Production

The recording sessions for this album took place in Rome at the Auditorio del Foro Italico in November 1953.

Composer Biography

Richard Wagner, the composer of Götterdämmerung, lived from 1813 to 1883.

Recording & Production

A bonus track on this album features a live recording of the closing scene from Götterdämmerung from 1950, with the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

Performer Biography

The album includes a bonus track of an interview with Wilhelm Furtwängler, the conductor, recorded in Rome in 1953.

Recording & Production

The recording of Götterdämmerung was split across several dates in November 1953, with Act 1 recorded on the 20th, Act 2 on the 24th, and Act 3 on the 27th.