Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Hans Hotter, Paul Kuën, Gustav Neidlinger, Josef Greindl, Maria von Ilosvay, Ilse Hollweg, Joseph Keilberth
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Mödl is present from the very first note, and, just for a moment, Wagner's idea of the union of man and woman into the perfect human being seems to have become reality. Brünnhilde's visions of fear are then of oppressive intensity, followed by moments of peaceful illusion and elemental power, before she unconditionally relinquishes her divinity. In her autobiography 'So war mein Weg', Mödl confesses that the Siegfried-Brünnhilde interplay was the most difficult role she experienced in the entire Ring: "The part is short, but it is always a third above my register. I had to be particularly careful", something she had to do most of the time.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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