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Title: Great singing and conducting but annoying noises
Review: This is a great recording, and other reviewers have praised the singing and the conducting, to which I agree.However, when they write that there is no coughing or audience noise whatsoever, I wonder if it is the same recording we are listening to. 'Die Walküre' has a lot of silent, intimate moments with almost solo instrument playing, and then you can hear a lot of 'noise' in this recording.I don't mean stage noise, but you hear a lot of audience coughing and more annoying, someone is constantly whispering the text just before the singers actually sing the lines.I can understand that it must be almost impossible for the singers to remember pages and pages of text (especially for Wotan in this opera), and maybe it's common to have a 'souffleur' in the pit in Wagner performances , but on repeated listening this really distracts.So you must be aware that this is a live recording after all, with a lot of electricity but also with some disadvantage ...
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