Grace Bumbry/Wagner
Sun, Mar 3 2013, 2:54PM
Dear Sirs,
Can you tell me if Venus in Tannhäuser was the only one wagnerian role who ever sang Grace Bumbry?
Thank you very much for your help.
Kind regards.
Sun, Mar 3 2013, 4:04PM
#2
RE: Grace Bumbry/Wagner
Thank you very much. According to the Bayreuther Festspiele website, she should have sung Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen, but I've never heared about it.
http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb_en/personen/7932/index.htm
Once again, thank you very much and kind regards.
Sun, Mar 17 2013, 1:51PM
#3
RE: Grace Bumbry/Wagner
It's well worth clicking on the Bayreuth Festival link above as a translation, for once a good one, is provided for the German article. I had never realized before, though I have several of her recordings, what a versatile singer Bumbry was.
http://www.biography.com/people/grace-bumbry-21088649
Perhaps this may help?
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach.
Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter.