UWolfgang Windgassen (Wolfgang Windgassen) |

UWolfgang Windgassen

Wenza i-debut yakhe ngo-1939 (Pforzheim, ingxenye ye-Pinkerton). Ngemva kwempi, wacula e-Stuttgart Opera House, lapho enza khona kwaze kwaba sekupheleni kokuphila kwakhe (ngo-1972-74 wayengumqondisi wezobuciko wale midlalo yaseshashalazini). Uthole udumo njengomhumushi omkhulu wezingxenye zikaWagner (Tristan, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Sigmund in Valkyrie). Udlale njalo kuBayreuth Festival (1951-71). Ngo-1955-56 wacula eCovent Garden (Tristan, Siegfried). Ngo-1957 waqala ukudlala kuMetropolitan Opera (Sigmund). Phakathi kwezinye izingxenye ze-Othello, i-Adolard ku-Weber's Euryant. Ngo-1970 uWindgassen wenza eSan Francisco eTristan und Isolde noNilsson. Ukurekhoda kufaka i-Florestan ku-Fidelio (i-conductor Furtwängler, EMI), Siegfried ku-Der Ring des Nibelungen (i-conductor Solti, Decca).

E. Tsodokov