Original sentence: : Hans Knappertsbusch (Philips).Bayreuth 1962.Klingsor in Richard Wagner: Parsifal.Leporello in W
Edited sentence: : Clutyens (Walhall).: Hermann Scherchen.Alberich, Das Rheingold, 1952, Dir.Also, 1956, 1962, 1963, AND 1964, all Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth; and 1953 conducted by Krauss.Bayreuth 1957, Dir.Besides the DVD of FIDELIO, black-and-white videos exist of him singing Beethoven's Ninth under Otto Klemperer, and rehearsing Alberich (whispering rather than singing, but you can see his acting technique) for Karl Bohm.Contemporary comparisons are available: his predecessors Adolf Vogel and Alois Pernerstoffer, and his understudies Franz Andersson and Toni Blankenheim.Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.He INCLUDED plenty of howls, shouts, and slides, all, apparently, spontaneous--they occur on different syllables from performance to performance--but he kept the line supported underneath them.He plays Doctor Bartolo.He was the first Alberich/Klingsor of his generation to sing these roles with line and musicality rather than as sequences of grunts and yelps.His stage presence resembled the screen-presence of Edward G.His voice was like a cannonball: dense, compact, dark-colored, explosively projected, and dangerous.Masetto in W.One or both may be online somewhere.Robinson--short, dark, energetic, cunning, and sadistic, grinning with his eyes as well as with his lips.This is an outstanding performance and it may be available from Norbeck, Peters and Ford