Super to have the full interview and musical examples. Certainly it was an incredible career (not quite over, at least in the recording studio) with Sutherland. I doubt we shall see their lie again!
I don't think I have ever heard Richard Bonynge interviewed before. John Amis, whose voice is so familiar to me from My Music, does a wonderful job as always because he knows the opera world so well. Sadly John is no longer with us.
Refreshing to hear an interviewer who understands the work of the interviewee.
I love this interview, so honest. I’ve listened to it so many times.
Super to have the full interview and musical examples. Certainly it was an incredible career (not quite over, at least in the recording studio) with Sutherland. I doubt we shall see their lie again!
like - of course!
I don't think I have ever heard Richard Bonynge interviewed before. John Amis, whose voice is so familiar to me from My Music, does a wonderful job as always because he knows the opera world so well. Sadly John is no longer with us.
Regarding my comment below about Flagstad and Hotter: They sang Die Walkure in English in 1948 before Richard Bonynge was in England...
I'm sure that's correct. After the war opera in German in England was not permitted but I think they started to relent in the later 1950s.
Flagstad and Hotter DID do Die Walkure in English...