great to see windgassen and neidlinger acting!!!

Simply fantastic to see all those heroes of Neubayreuth sing and act. Wieland and Böhm are so intense!

Thank you for posting this! I have been looking for a video of Windgassen singing Loge for ever!

Thank you so much for posting this spine-tingling clip of the true "greats" in rehearsal. This is how it should be done - Directors of today, please note!

Thanks for uploading this rare document 👍

Um ano depois o cara morria….incrível vê-lo aqui tão cheio de vida

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That's Nikolaus Lehnhoff sitting on the right of Wagner @ 3:44 . Lehnhoff directed the Ring in San Francisco and Münich in the 80's. I wonder who the young man sitting to the right of Lehnhoff is..?

I am happy to know there are 22000+ hard core Wagnerites who were excited to watch this

Wieland Wagner had a great sense of humour, as we know. And used to explain complicated themes through irreverent comparisons, keeping all his singers in a good mood (It is mentioned many times in many memoirs). Here he repeats the name of Kaiser Franz Joseph: Ich meine nicht Kaiser Franz Joseph!---Evidently, in this case, he doesn' t want ponderousness and pomposity, or smth like this..

What a treasure!

I think that’s August Everding’s voice in the commentary.