Isolde and Brünnhilde are endlessly fascinating personalities and like most Wagnerian heroines
are equally powerful in their love. This book pays homage to thirteen outstanding interpreters
of these roles from different eras all of whom left their imprint of high artistic standards
on the Bayreuth festival. Kirsten Liese portrays each soprano individually through text and
images which include unpublished photos from private archives: Frida Leider Kirsten Flagstad
Martha Mödl Astrid Varnay Birgit Nilsson Ludmila Dvorákova Anja Silja Catarina Ligendza
Dame Gwyneth Jones Hildegard Behrens Deborah Polaski Waltraud Meier und Nina Stemme the
living artists all collaborated exclusively with the author on their chapters. With a Foreword
by the brilliant Wagnerian conductor Christian Thielemann.
