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- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Path: sparky!uunet!visual!rwh
- From: rwh@visual.com (Rob Holzel)
- Subject: Hildegard Behrens vocal collapse?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172249.13631@visual.com>
- Sender: rwh@visual.com (Robert W. Holzel)
- Organization: Visual
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:22:49 GMT
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- A friend told me the following. I wonder if it's true?
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- 1. Hildegard Behrens has recently suffered a vocal collapse,
- which to the horror of the MET management will prevent her from
- singing Brunnhilde in upcoming "Ring" performances.
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- 2. Eva Marton will not sub for Behrens, since she swore never to
- sing at the MET again when she was passed over for Brunnhilde (in
- favor of Behrens) the first time around.
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- 3. As a singer of last resort, the MET have enrolled Dame Gwenyth
- Jones to sing the role. This much disconcerted my friend, who
- said Jones is so past her prime that by now he'd thought she
- was dead.
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