Thank you Seattle for remembering my Mom, Geraldin Decker.

Joan Herald (Ortlinde), Barbara Coffin (Waltraute), Thelma Salvesen (Helmwige), Geraldine Decker (Schwertleite), and Jeanne Cook (Gerhilde) the orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Henry Holt. WALTRAUTE: Hoioho! Hoioho! Siegrune, here! What kept you so long? GERHILDE: The warrior's war has spread to the horses! ORTLINDE: Hiaha! Your stallion is biting my mare! GERHILDE: Implacable foes were Sintolt and Wittig!

of Puget Sound Concert Opera, Regina has served as Seattle Opera Guilds VP. Ortlinde's mare carries Wittig the Irming! She has sung with the Seattle Opera Chorus and Lyric Opera Theatre of Tempe. SCHWERTLEITE: Far from the grey then fasten your stallion She will be glad to graze by your stallion. ORTLINDE: Go tether your chesnut next to my grey Ortlinde gets her horse in trouble, early in the Valkyrie scene: This recording, made for KUOW in 1976, captures the English language cycles (sung in Andrew Porter's translation) that Seattle Opera offered before the days of English captions. Joan (Falskow) Herald, currently (August 2013) Vice President of Education for the Seattle Opera Guild, was one of the original Seattle Opera Valkyries! The soprano sang Ortlinde in our first-ever RING performances, beginning in 1973.

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