William Beatty-Kingston in London - the 1880's
from Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, page 64:
When he [Albert Niemann] made his London debut three years ago at Her Majesty's Theatre in the declamatory part of Siegmund ( Walkuere) his delivery was not appreciably hoarser or harsher than it had been sixteen years previously. Untravelled metropolitan dilettanti who had heard and read of Albert Niemann as the first tenor singer of the Fatherland, could hardly believe their ears whilst listening to his husky declamation, with all the cracks, flaws, and roughness to which his Berlin admirers have for so many years past been accustomed that they… more >>
William Beatty-Kingston, Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, volume 1 (London, 1887), p. 64. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1445196264649 accessed: 3 October, 2024
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Die Walküre
written by Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner |
performed by Albert Niemann |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1880's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |