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:*[https://youtu.be/klSnbs8d6Pk Valery Gergiev Domingo Parsifal avi]. Placido Domingo as Parsifal. While I'm no big Domingo fan, the fact that at the washed-up age of 49 he decided to take up and promote Wagner, is admirable.  His Italian accent makes it kinda funny, but the visuals are unparalleled on YouTube. The children's choir, which are all girls, appear on stage. Kundry's death, which you never see at Bayreuth these days, is even alluded to. (Side note: Putin was in St. Petersburg meeting with Valery Gergiev when the [[Zelensky regime]] attempted an assassination of Putin in Moscow with drones.)

:*[https://youtu.be/klSnbs8d6Pk Valery Gergiev Domingo Parsifal avi]. Placido Domingo as Parsifal. While I'm no big Domingo fan, the fact that at the washed-up age of 49 he decided to take up and promote Wagner, is admirable.  His Italian accent makes it kinda funny, but the visuals are unparalleled on YouTube. The children's choir, which are all girls, appear on stage. Kundry's death, which you never see at Bayreuth these days, is even alluded to. (Side note: Putin was in St. Petersburg meeting with Valery Gergiev when the [[Zelensky regime]] attempted an assassination of Putin in Moscow with drones.)

*[https://youtu.be/WzKY8JKyNjQ?t=178 Jeffrey Swann "Wagner: A Voyage of Self-Discovery through Beethoven"] Another excellent presentation by Jeffrey Swann.

*[https://youtu.be/WzKY8JKyNjQ?t=178 Jeffrey Swann "Wagner: A Voyage of Self-Discovery through Beethoven"] Another excellent presentation by Jeffrey Swann.

:*[https://youtu.be/qyStoc6p7lw Holländer - Die Frist ist um - Wagner]. Incredible butchery, but a valiant determined effort. She even gets lost halfway through. This is what happens when you have somebody schooled in the classics of Mozart and Beethoven approach Wagner, and why the importance of the words. This doesn't takeaway from a person's technical skill.  Wagner demands from the interpreter to put something of themselves into the performance, and not just rote memorization. The spirit of the music is missing. She's still learning, and may not ever pick it up. She did much better with ''Nur eine waffe taugt''.

:*[https://youtu.be/qyStoc6p7lw Holländer - Die Frist ist um - Wagner]. Incredible butchery, but a valiant determined effort. She even gets lost halfway through. This is what happens when you have somebody schooled in the classics of Mozart and Beethoven approach Wagner, and why the importance of the words. This doesn't takeaway from a person's technical skill.  Wagner demands from the interpreter to put something of themselves into the performance, and not just rote memorization. The spirit of the music is missing. She's still learning, and may not ever pick it up. She did much better with ''Nur eine waffe taugt''. (Here's where she gets lost, [https://youtu.be/qyStoc6p7lw?t=519 "Yet one hope alone can save me"], hence the importance of the words.)

:*[https://youtu.be/lmDgr-Jkxes George London - Der Fliegende Holländer - Die Frist ist um - Bayreuth 1956.] What the Dutchman's monologue is supposed to sound like in this near classic, definitive performance.

:*[https://youtu.be/lmDgr-Jkxes George London - Der Fliegende Holländer - Die Frist ist um - Bayreuth 1956.] What the Dutchman's monologue is supposed to sound like in this near classic, definitive performance.

::*[https://youtu.be/zB53Tg1_EdQ George London "Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" Das Rheingold]. While we're on the subject of George London, I just have to include this legendary clip. I even remember when it was uploaded to YouTube, after much discussion.

::*[https://youtu.be/zB53Tg1_EdQ George London "Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" Das Rheingold]. While we're on the subject of George London, I just have to include this legendary clip. I even remember when it was uploaded to YouTube, after much discussion.