Heldentenor sing-off - Siegmund's Valse cry from Walkure - 13 tenors

Thirteen heldentenors of the last hundred years sing Siegmund's tortured cry during the first act of Die Walküre: Wälse! Wälse! Wo ist dein Schwert? Das starke Schwert, das im Sturm ich schwänge, bricht mir hervor aus der Brust, was wütend das Herz noch hegt? Your tenors are in chronological order: 1. Lauritz Melchior - Metropolitan Opera, 1940, c. Erich Leinsdorf 2. Max Lorenz - Berlin, 1941 3. Set Svanholm - Met 1954, c. Fritz Stiedry 4. Ramón Vinay - Covent Garden, 1957, c. Rudolf Kempe 5. Wolfgang Windgassen - Bayreuthe 1960, c. Rudolf Kempe 6. Mario del Monaco - Stuttgart 1966, c. Ferdinand Leitner 7. Jon Vickers - Salzburg Festival 1967, c. Herbert von Karajan 8. James King - Bayreuth 1969, c. Lorin Maazel 9. Jess Thomas - San Francisco Opera 1972, c. Otmar Suitner 10. Peter Hofmann - Bayreuth 1978, c. Pierre Boulez 11. Siegfried Jerusalem - Bayreuth 1983, c. Georg Solti 12. Plácido Domingo - Metropolitan Opera 1997, c. James Levine 13. Robert Dean Smith - Bayreuth 2001, c. Adam Fischer And some theatrical magic brings us to the end of Act 1!