And your father was rumoured to be a slow learner of language? This is another really interesting recording and an excellent performance. Evelyn Lear is a singer of whom not much is heard these days: very good to hear her. She was, of course, married to the fine Wagnerian singer Thomas Stewart: who my joint favourite Wotan with Norman Bailey.
Thank you so much for the insight, heard so much since my Dad’s passing of him being a slow learner of language but it actually makes me prouder of what he eventually achieved, leaving school at 14 plus being part of a Family who did not have much, again amazing that he worked so hard to get to these levels, singing parts like this all over the world…
@@RichardRemedios Maybe the rumours were only partly true? A response perhaps to the fact that many of us back then could not believe that he received so little exposure in the major international houses relative to his abilities. Of Goodall's outstanding generation of ENO Wagnerians I think only Norman Bailey got to execute his famous role (Hans Sachs) at Bayreuth. I was lucky enough to witness that and the Beckmesser from Bayreuth (Thomas Hemsley) did eventually appear at the Colosseum in the part. The Walther at Bayreuth was nowhere near as good as your father!
@@RichardRemedios well he told me once that he was as thick as two planks put together! He didn’t understand how he could learn all the languages…but he just did.
And your father was rumoured to be a slow learner of language? This is another really interesting recording and an excellent performance. Evelyn Lear is a singer of whom not much is heard these days: very good to hear her. She was, of course, married to the fine Wagnerian singer Thomas Stewart: who my joint favourite Wotan with Norman Bailey.
Thank you so much for the insight, heard so much since my Dad’s passing of him being a slow learner of language but it actually makes me prouder of what he eventually achieved, leaving school at 14 plus being part of a Family who did not have much, again amazing that he worked so hard to get to these levels, singing parts like this all over the world…
@@RichardRemedios Maybe the rumours were only partly true? A response perhaps to the fact that many of us back then could not believe that he received so little exposure in the major international houses relative to his abilities. Of Goodall's outstanding generation of ENO Wagnerians I think only Norman Bailey got to execute his famous role (Hans Sachs) at Bayreuth. I was lucky enough to witness that and the Beckmesser from Bayreuth (Thomas Hemsley) did eventually appear at the Colosseum in the part. The Walther at Bayreuth was nowhere near as good as your father!
@@RichardRemedios well he told me once that he was as thick as two planks put together! He didn’t understand how he could learn all the languages…but he just did.
great singing but why so fast at the end?
Thank you, but not too sure, I’m unfamiliar with this piece, unlike the Wagner roles my father sang…