Now playing: Karajan, BP - Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Interlude – "Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!" by Deutsche Grammophon - DG. Paused, Muted
Karajan, BP - Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Interlude – "Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!"
In this week's Sunday Matinee we celebrate Herbert von Karajan's birthday (5 March) with the excerpt 'Interlude – "Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!"' (Loge, Alberich, Wotan) from his own film of Das Rheingold, based on his 1978 production at the Salzburg Festival.
This film is incredibly and sadly the only surviving example of Karajan conducting a staged performance of one of Wagner's operas. This excerpt features Thomas Stewart (Bass-Baritone) as Wotan, Zoltán Kelemen (Baritone) as Alberich and Pe