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- From: chrisi@lloyd.Camex.COM (Chris Ischay)
- Subject: Re: Hildegard Behrens vocal collapse?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.185813.19902@lloyd.Camex.COM>
- Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
- References: <1992Dec21.172249.13631@visual.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:58:13 EST
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- In article <1992Dec21.172249.13631@visual.com> rwh@visual.com (Rob Holzel) writes:
- >A friend told me the following. I wonder if it's true?
- >
- >1. Hildegard Behrens has recently suffered a vocal collapse,
- > which to the horror of the MET management will prevent her from
- > singing Brunnhilde in upcoming "Ring" performances.
-
- I heard her sing Salome last year for the BSO, and she sounded pretty good.
- Two months later I heard her sing Tosca at Covent Garden and she was in
- rough shape. The passages in which she could push out a big sound were
- reliable, but Vissi d'arte was simply not within her powers. She sounded
- as if she were singing through a terrible respiratory problem.
-
- >2. Eva Marton will not sub for Behrens, since she swore never to
- > sing at the MET again when she was passed over for Brunnhilde (in
- > favor of Behrens) the first time around.
-
- Small loss. I'd rather hear Levine sing it himself.
-
- >3. As a singer of last resort, the MET have enrolled Dame Gwenyth
- > Jones to sing the role. This much disconcerted my friend, who
- > said Jones is so past her prime that by now he'd thought she
- > was dead.
-
- Jones is singing Brunnhilde tonight at the Met, but that's the way it was
- scheduled way back when.
-
- Chris Ischay
- chrisi@camex.com
-