Скачать или смотреть Metropolitan Opera Siegfried sings "You're a Grand Old Flag" (Jon Fredric West)

Happy 4th of July from the Jon Fredric West archives channel. Here is a performance of the internationally-renowned heldentenor featuring a patriotic classic by George M. Cohan from a recital in Syracuse, New York.

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Hailed as “perfectly cast and most vocally convincing Siegfried ever heard in an opera house,” Jon Fredric West has established himself as the world's foremost interpreter of the title role in Siegfried and Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. He has sung the roles twice as part of the complete Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York under the baton of James Levine. Mr. West has further distinguished himself in the title role of Tristan in Tristan und Isolde. Die Welt hails him as “the kind of Tristan you seldom hear with any comparable balance of presentation. Without the least sign of exhaustion, he sings through to the conclusion with a fresh voice, even in the murderous chain of hallucinations under which he dies to meet Isolde's arrival." Mr. West's experience includes leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Prinzregenten Academie, Deutsche Oper, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera, La Scala, San Francisco Opera, Kennedy Center, and Houston Grand Opera. He has also sung with the Ne​w York Philharmonic, the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic under conductors Zubin Mehta, James Conlon, Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Eugene Ormandy, and Lorin Maazel.