Fear of silence

Martha Mödl in conversation with Dieter David Scholz

Götterdämmerung - Bayreuth 1955

Ms. Mödl, you were one of the pillars of the Neubayreuth ensemble, you embody something like a musical primal stone of Wagnerian singing. And yet you don't come from a musical home or have any other musical background.

Not at all! The only thing I can say is that my father, without being able to read music, could play somet…