As with so many treasures, I came upon this by chance on YouTube: Matti Salminen, the great Hunding and Hagen, sings Wotan in the finale of DIE WALKURE opposite Birgit Nilsson’s Brunnhilde.
Here in the link.
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PARSIFAL @ Bayreuth ~ 1981
Above: Eva Randová as Kundry
Horst Stein conducts Wagner’s PARSIFAL at the Bayreuth Festival 1981. Watch and listen here.
Cast:
Amfortas: Bernd Weikl ~ Titurel: Matti Salminen ~ Gurnemanz: Hans Sotin ~ Parsifal: Siegfried Jerusalem ~ Klingsor: Leif Roar ~ Kundry: Eva Randová ~ 1st Knight of the Grail: Toni Krämer ~ 2nd Knight of the Grail: Heinz Klaus Ecker ~ 1st Squire: Marga Schiml ~ 2nd Squire: Hanna Schwarz ~ 3rd Squire: Helmut Pampuch ~ 4th Squire: Martin Egel ~ Flower Maidens: Norma Sharp, Carol Richardson, Hanna Schwarz, Mari-Anne Häggender, Marga Schiml, and Margit Neubauer ~ Alto Solo: Hanna Schwarz
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Matti Salminen as Hagen
On October 21st, 1988, basso Matti Salminen (in a Marty Sohl photo, above) enjoyed a huge personal triumph with his magnificent portrayal of Hagen at the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere performance of the Otto Schenk production of GOTTERDAMMERUNG, with James Levine on the podium. I was there, and it was one of the great nights in my opera-going career.
This excerpt comes from the 1993 broadcast of the Wagner masterwork:
Oberon's Glade 