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His only difficulties were with the singer. She was the blue lady of the Townhalle concert. She was famous through Germany: the domestic creature sang Bruennhilde Kundry at Dresden and Bayreuth with undoubted lung-power.
Siegmund carrying off his sister sang a tenor drawing-room song. Siegfried and Bruennhilde, like respectable German married people, in the Goetterdaemmerung laid bare before each other, especially for the benefit of the audience, their pompous and voluble conjugal passion.
The finer characteristics of Italian melody, that easy tunefulness which seems to have sprung naturally and without effort out of the mechanism of the vocal organs, is above all noticeable in the music of his noblest creation, Bruennhilde. The flower-maidens' chorus in Parsifal might be called the apotheosis of Italian song.
Thus in Die Walkuere, in Wotan's long speech to Bruennhilde in Act II., he sketches the main events of Das Rheingold. In Siegfried the amusing riddle scene, a reminiscence of the Eddic Alvismal, seems intended to relate events which have gone before. In Goetterdaemmerung it is Siegfried who just before his death tells the story of the preceding evening.
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