Interpreters

If you have seen and heard Olive Fremstad in the scene of the spear in Götterdämmerung, you will find it difficult to believe that what I say is true that work and not plenary inspiration is responsible for the effect. To be sure the inspiration has its place in the final result. Once she is certain of her ground, words, music, tone-colour, gesture and action, she inflames the whole magnificently with her magnetism. This magnetism is instinctive, a part of herself the rest is not. She brings about the detail with diligent drudgery, and without that her performances would go for nought.