At first, I used to be pondering of Stignani shredding her voice within the famed “Condotta ell’period in ceppi,” dwell from La Scala in 1953; after which Margaret Klose (unsure if she is technically a contralto) leaping out of the audio system along with her witchy Ortrud dwell from Berlin beneath Heger in 1943 (alas, she is singing with Nazis Volker and Muller, and other than her, all of the singers sound burdened).
However after a lot reflection, and I hope this choice meets the necessities. (It’s a choice from a industrial recording; I couldn’t discover the entire recording on youtube, however somebody uploaded it in elements.) The inimitable, redoubtable “ball busting” Rita Gorr unleashes volcanic energy (a hearth that may merge the stormy sea in a terrifying denouement ) in her recording of the falcon function Margared in Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys. Here’s a Margared who turns into an Ortrud (and her duet with Karnak resembles the infernal plotting of Telramund and Ortrud in Lohengrin). This recording reveals prime Gorr earlier than the highest collapsed method too quickly within the mid Nineteen Sixties. The voice is of a bit right here from scary chest to opulent center to a piercing, sopranoish high. Be careful, Ys and your denizens: don’t mess along with her. She’ll get you and your little flood management system too.
