Why I Picked Nicolai Gedda

In my last post I nominated Nicolai Gedda as Loge for my dream Ring Cycle. Of course, one might protest that Gedda didn’t sing Wagner (other than excerpts) after his one Lohengrin in Stockholm. I don’t care, and I’m not the only one. My dad had recorded, back in the 80s, an episode from George Jellinek’s radio show The Vocal Scene on Wagnerian tenors and he, too, treated Gedda’s performance of In fernam Land (the Grail narrative) as “a model in every respect” while dutifully pointing out that Gedda hadn’t continued to pursue Wagner.

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