Aaron Rabushka said:
>When John deHaan got sick and was unable to perform the role of Siegfried
>in Seattle in 1995 Speight Jenkins mentioned that he had the unenviable
>task of having to find another Siegfried on a harrowingly short notice. In
>a public talk he mentioned that apart from deHaan there were only six guys
>in the whole world that he would consider for the role. Three of them were
>in Bayreuth. He managed to free Wolfgang Hassler (Fassler perhaps?) from
>an engagement as Florestan and put him into the production with stunning
>results both musically and scenically.
It was Wolfgang Fassler, and Aaron is correct about the stunning results
acheived with just a few days of rehearsal on a very complex set.
Also, parphrasing what Speight Jenkins said:
"There are only 6 tenors in the world who could sing this role, and
we know their phone numbers".
Fred Fry
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