Thank you so much for this! I had always heard that Rysanek delayed singing Salome for twenty-five years, and judging from this, it was worth the wait. Her steadily increasing hysteria just prior to receiving Jochanaan's head is alone worth having waited all these years to finally see it. Amazing singing actress.
@@Nerqc No contest for this one: the great Ljuba Welitsch stands head and shoulders above any other singer of the role. Her inimitable quality of innocent depravity combined with her uniquely bright and weighty timbre ensure her preeminence in the part. Strauss approached the silvery-voiced Elisabeth Schumann to perform the role, and even promised to revise the orchestration to chamber proportions to enable her to do so. Despite this considerable temptation, Schumann turned him down. Had she accepted, her Salome might well have become the gold standard in the part.
this is easily one of the greatest things i've ever seen! thank god this record remains of this momentous achievement in singing and acting. i've always loved her, but this eclipses everything!
Truly one of the greatest singing actresses of the 20 thCentury who electrified legions of opera goers with her rivetting performances;She gave it (opera)her all and we are SO Thankful that she did. legions of opera goers with her rivetting performances
Danke, es gibt einmalige Momente. Das war bestimmt einer dieser einmaligen Momente. Es freut mich unglaublich, wenn auch andere meine Begeisterung teilen.
We attended one of LR's Salomes as the Met, hoping it would be as gripping as her Sieglinde or Kaiserin, but in a more visceral way. We were not disappointed until some minutes before the end. She just pooped out vocally and those last glorious phrases were barely audible. She was still vociferously applauded. It was, overall, one helluvan evening.
thanks for this rare video. What is the year of this live recording? She played Salome under Böhm with Wiener Phil. from 1972 to 1981 (Böhm's death). Maybe this is one of the Tokyo concerts in October 1980 given the subtitles
La tentazione delle cantanti wagneriane di interpretare Salome e' fantastica. Ma e' la modalita' sbagliata... Salome era una minorenne... Solo la Studer si e' avvicinata....
Non ho mai percepito la Rysanek come una cantante wagneriana. Per me era un soprano lirico che spesso si trovava nel repertorio sbagliato. Ed è chiaro che non voleva davvero cantare Salome. La sua voce non è abbastanza flessibile e gli acuti non sono mai stati uno dei punti di forza della Rysanek. E sì, la Studer è stata fantastica come Salomè e forse ideale. Solo lirica e una Chrysothemis, ma non Isolde o Elektra.
