Listening to Die Valkure
Based on a previous Norse Notation, I was listening to the opera to and from Austin. Day after Valentine’s.
I went searching for a libretto, thinking I had a grip on the plot, only to find out I was woefully mistaken. Still, it is a sad love story, misguided, even, with both gods and humans behaving badly. Seems to be a theme.
That day after VD? Even better. Gorgeous music, and the heavier use of brass to bring out the bass? Certainly a theme worth exploring in the heavy German opera.
Unable to access the structural components of the tale itself, relying on my highly porous memory, I was thinking it is the wrong day to listen Die Walkure, as love brings gods to their knees, and lays low even the pitiful humans who are no more than pawns.
The music is rich. Not sure about German for vocals, but it wasn’t my call. That’s the way the stuff.
Listening to Die Valkyrie
Die Walküre – The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Clemens Krauss
