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The Met’s Die Walküre – All Those Valkyries and the Machine Breaks Down!!?!

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A scene from Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walküre at The Metropolitan Opera
A scene from Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walküre in a production at The Metropolitan Opera.
2:40PM
May
16, 2011

Despite a late start due to technical difficulties, I have never enjoyed Die Walküre as much as I did last Saturday in an HD transmission from The Metropolitan Opera.

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Edward Downes and Sir Edward Downes

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Rosa Ponselle in a promotional photograph for NBC Radio - 1936.
"I suppose the earliest memory I have of the Metropolitan in New York was Rosa Ponselle singing in the 1927 revival of Norma."
11:40AM
July 15, 2009

Edward Downes (Not the “Sir” Edward Downes) spent three years in the late 1930s as Music Critic of the Boston Evening Transcript.

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