Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (live 1960)

Artists

Hermann Uhde (Wotan(Rheingold)/Wanderer), Jerome Hines (Wotan (Die Walküre)), Hans Hopf (Siegfried), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde (Siegfried/Götterdämmerung)), Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde (Walküre)), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegmund), Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Sieglinde), Gottlob Frick (Hunding/Hagen), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Gerhard Stolze (Loge), Thomas Stewart (Donner/Gunther), Herold Kraus (Mime), Ingrid Bjoner (Freia/Gutrune), Grace Hoffmann (Waltraute).

Live mono recording from Bayreuth, July 1960

The recording of the Ring of the Nibelung from the Bayreuth Festival in 1960 is one of the best recordings of the cycle ever: Wagnerians still rave about the impressive instrumentation and the masterful conducting of the Bayreuth debutant Rudolf Kempe. For his first “Ring” direction in Bayreuth, Wolfgang Wagner engaged numerous new voices in addition to established forces (Astrid Varnay, Hermann Uhde): Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Jerome Hines (Wotan), Hans Hopf (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen) and Otakar Kraus (Alberich)

This 12 CD box set is a re-release of the complete recording released on MYTO in 2011.