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Jonas Kaufmann Withdraws From the Metropolitan Opera's 'Die Walküre'
New York Times (blog)
By DANIEL J. WAKIN The tenor Jonas Kaufmann has again withdrawn from the role of Siegmund in the Metropolitan Opera's production of “Die Walküre” by Richard Wagner. Stuart Skelton will take over in Monday's performance, the Met said on Wednesday, ...

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New York Times
Monitor Board of Contributors Opera Day 2: exciting (and uncomfortable)
Concord Monitor
By Mike Alberici / For the Monitor I had to change my game plan to prepare for Die Walkure at the Capitol Center for the Arts this week. This second opera of Richard Wagner's four-part Ring cycle is 4½ hours long. (By comparison, Das Rheingold, ...
Video's Shifting 'Ring' RolesNew York Times

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Stuart Skelton Replaces Jonas Kaufmann in the Met's DIE WALKURE Tonight, 5/7
Broadway World
Stuart Skelton will sing the role of Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre tonight, May 7, replacing Jonas Kaufmann who is ill. Skelton sang Siegmund earlier this season at the Met on April 13. The Australian tenor made his Met debut last season as the Drum ...


 
Opera Day 2: exciting (and uncomfortable)
Concord Monitor
By Mike Alberici / For the Monitor I had to change my game plan to prepare for Die Walkure at the Capitol Center for the Arts this week. This second opera of Richard Wagner's four-part Ring cycle is 4½ hours long. (By comparison, Das Rheingold, ...

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WQXR Radio (blog)
Fischer-Dieskau's was the voice of the century
Philadelphia Inquirer
... his reach extended well beyond recordings of all the male-voice songs by Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Wolf, and into obscure ballads by Loewe, Verdi's comic Falstaff with Leonard Bernstein, excerpts from the role of Wotan in Die Walkure and even, ...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Leading Interpreter of Lieder and Opera, Dies at 86WQXR Radio (blog)

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Tony Nominee Tom Edden on His Early Inspiration and Inappropriate Audition for ...
Broadway.com
Meeting Joan Rivers and attending the Metropolitan Opera are icing on the New York cake for Edden, who bought a ticket to Die Walküre “as a little treat for my [Tony] nomination.” The hard part is being away from his partner, choreographer Aiden Treays ...

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National Post
'Wagner's Dream,' a struggle on Met stage captured on film
Philadelphia Inquirer
When Voigt tripped over her dress and fell in her first entrance in the opening night of Die Walküre, she vowed that the staging would be changed for future performances. “Be careful what you wish for,” warned one onlooker. “He [Lepage] might fly you ...
Credit: Susan Froemke ProductionsNPR (blog)
Bay Area theaters screening Metropolitan Opera's acclaimed 'Ring' cycleSan Jose Mercury News
Documentary on Wagner's Ring Cycle shows MondayDallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)

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