Lady Louisa Knightley in Hamburg - 19 August, 1889
from Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1885-1913, page 148:
Last Wednesday I went with Harry (who with Mr. Laurie turned up the previous day) Mrs. Wynne Finch and Mr. Pemberton and Colonel Colville to Frankfurt to hear Die Walküre the first of the Niebelungen series. Anything more splendid than the second act where Brünnhilde comes to separate the lovers, it is impossible to conceive—one is fairly carried away on waves and billows of sound: and it is extremely finely acted, and sung, specifically by Frau Lüger as Brünnhilde. . .
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Peter Gordon and Lady Louisa Knightley, and (ed.), Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1885-1913 (2005), p. 148. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1397749458803 accessed: 24 December, 2024
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Die Walküre
written by Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner |
performed by Frau Lüger |
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Date/Time | 19 August, 1889 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in public |
Originally submitted by Michelle Meinhart on Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:44:18 +0100