The wide-ranging choice of titles found in this 10-CD set portray the great German heroic tenor Wolfgang Windgassen in all his Wagner roles. Also featured are rarely heard works and recordings which reveal his enormous versatility and importance as one of the most significant German voices of the 20 century.
1951 heralded a new era at the famous Bayreuth festival, a period which music critics and historians refer to as the Neu-Bayreuth. This is when many great singers, such as Martha Mödl, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, George London, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, were presented to the Bayreuth public for the first time. It was however the heroic tenor Wolfgang Windgassen who was the spearhead of this revolution in performance, and he appeared in all of the festival operas in subsequent years.
