Mr. Barenboim became a crucial collaborator. “I was already quite old when I started singing Wagner,” Mr. Schager said. He told me, ‘I know you can do it.’ It was for me fantastic to find a great maestro who believed in me this way.”Mr. Barenboim said that Mr. Schager “has many unusual qualities. I think it was very useful for him to start his professional life as an operetta singer, which can be quite hectic. “Yes, the Siegfried in ‘Siegfried’ is very long,” he said.

Source: International New York Times April 26, 2019 14:37 UTC