Maybe had she done the famous “Leonie Schrei”, he would have awakened. It truly is amazing how Hunding manages to sleep through all that noisy lovemaking and sword pulling and falling down. Sieglinde is, in case you didn’t figure it out, the trophy wife. In short, the Hundings need an interior decorator. Oh, nearly forgot about the interior of the house - it is a paneled finished basement type - trophy room with elk or moose heads and little trophies all over plus a nauseating painting of an elk/moose/Bambi’s Dad. He does not crack like certain other Wagnerian tenors I’ve seen at the Metropolitan, either.
Ventris is a good, solid singer who is sympathetic and earnest but not glamorous like a Kaufmann, for example. The voice is good and improves when she goes up the staff but there is a little too much vibrato, generally speaking. Some good singing all solid and projected and more focused than last night’s, but by no means clarion. Miss Westbroek is very good at playing the abuse victim/sexy wife, so you all get the picture. Oh, I forgot to mention she’s wearing a sleeveless schmatte in light green with a little apron, along with a strawberry blond wig, or maybe her own hair? Whatever, she certainly looks the part. We already know that he can’t keep his hands off her as she has big reddish hand imprints on either arm. He can’t keep his hands off Sieglinde, either, all that good ol’ boy slapping of the behind.
He has Sieglinde rustle up some grub for his homies, then questions Siegmund.
Hunding is a Major Macho creepo - we’ve all known one or two - and for once becomes a character to contend with not just a cipher in the background witnessing the Zwillingspaar’s Lust. They do their usual recognition thing (nicely) until that nasty husband comes home, with a bunch of his cracker homeboys. He has apparently now done this role at Bayreuth. Siegmund is Christopher Ventris, a British fellow whom I’ve seen do Parsifal, and liked. But meanwhile, back at the door in question, Sieglinde is anxiously looking out when she sees a strange man.
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