Seattle Ring Cycles

Maestro Vote burst into international prominence and received high acclaim as Music Director of three complete cycles of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with soprano Jane Eaglen at Seattle Opera in August of 2001. Hailed as "Musical Wotan of the production," Vote was recognized as "a real master of Wagnerian Style" and "a conductor who brings out the best in his players." The New York Times noted that his performance was "beautiful, conceptually unified and musically strong...Mr. Vote brought vigor and textural clarity to the score."

Seattle Opera 2001: Conductor Franz Vote
Des Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner

Audio Clips Selections: [MP3 player must be installed to listen]

Rheingold: featuring Lisa Safer as Woglinde, Mary Phillips as Wellgunde, and Laura Tucker as Flosshilde.
Die Walküre: featuring Jane Eaglen as Brünnhilde, Phillip Joll as Wotan.
Siegfried: featuring Richard Berkeley-Steele as Siegfried, Jane Eaglen as Brünnhilde.
Die Götterdämmerung: featuring Jane Eaglen as Brünnhilde.
Die Götterdämmerung: Orchestral Performance

Problems listening to the above selections might be solved by either installing Windows Media Players or Plug-ins, or by sending an email with a request for the mp3 files separately. The links for the downloads are:

Windows Media Player 10
Windows Media Player 9 Series
Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X [Includes plugins for Internet Explorer, Netscape & Safari]
Windows Media Player 7.1 for Mac OS 9
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