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Examples
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Yet having delayed Brunnhilde I began to think, 'It's not going to happen.'
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2010
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The Wagner allusions are neat -- Brunnhilde (whose famous Ride is quoted wittily in the Ponyo score) is the daughter of Wotan, the king of the gods, and Erda, goddess of the earth, who dumped his sorry ass before the opera begins.
Ponyo Roger Sutton 2009
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Yet having delayed Brunnhilde I began to think, 'It's not going to happen.'
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2010
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She was performing Brunnhilde in Wagners Die Walkure, a heavy, challenging role that played to her strengths.
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She was performing Brunnhilde in Wagners Die Walkure, a heavy, challenging role that played to her strengths.
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Her imperiousness in "Isolde's Curse" (one of several excerpts here from the legendary "Tristan und Isolde" she recorded under Wilhelm Fürtwangler's baton in 1952), and the tragic weight she brings to the Brunnhilde-Siegmund duet from Act 2 of "Die Walküre" (with her reliable, late-career stage partner, tenor Set Svanholm), register strikingly.
From EMI, a fine sampling of Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad Joe Banno 2010
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She was performing Brunnhilde in Wagners Die Walkure, a heavy, challenging role that played to her strengths.
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He called Irene Ward, a conservative member of Parliament, a "backbench Brunnhilde: blonde, warm, dowdy, waddles."
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Here's an exciting clip of Lorenz as Siegfried with the legendary Wagnerian soprano Frida Leider as Brunnhilde in the 1934 film made at the Bayreuth Festival, the annual Wagner Festival begun by Wagner himself.
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I once toyed with the idea of getting Bugs Bunny as Brunnhilde, sliding off the big fat horse.
Ink-Stained Wretch Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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