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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Tom Krause (Il Conte di Almaviva), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (La Contessa), Ileana Cotrubas (Susanna), José van Dam (Figaro), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jules Bastin (Bartolo), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Heinz Zednik (Basilio), Kurt Equiluz (Don Curzio) & Zoltán Kelemen (Antonio)
Chor und...
The Staatsoper orchestra is at its most technically brilliant and tonally scrumptious...Onstage the linchpin is the lovable Cotrubas, unfailingly resourceful and in wonderful voice...The Almavivas... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Claire Watson, Kurt Böhme, Hertha Töpper, Otto Wiener, Erika Köth, Fritz Wunderlich, Gerhard Stolze, Brigitte Fassbaender, Annelie Waas
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Joseph Keilberth
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Fiordiligi), Monica Bacelli (Dorabella), Laura Cherici (Despina), Richard Decker (Ferrando), Albert Dohmen (Guglielmo), Sesto Bruscantini (Don Alfonso)
Marchigiana Vincenzo Bellini Lyric Chorus & Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustav Kuhn
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Gounod: Faust
Piotr Beczala (Faust), Soile Isokoski (Marguerite), Kwangchul Youn (Mephistopheles), Adrian Eröd (Valentin), Michaela Selinger (Siebel), Hans Peter Kammerer (Wagner) & Zoryana Kushpler (Marthe)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Bertrand de Billy
a reading of exceptional vigour and dignity, banishing genteel cobwebs and traditional cuts...Isokoski's characteristically pure tones make her a winsomely vulnerable heroine...[Beczala] shows... — More…
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Georg Friedrich Händel: Xerxes
Fritz Wunderlich (Xerxes), Ingeborg Hallstein (Atalanta), Naan Pöld (Arsamenes), Hertha Töpper (Amastris), Jean Cook (Romilda), Karl Christian Kohn (Ariodates), Max Proebstl (Elviro), Bavarian Radio Choir, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík
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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)
Robert Kerns (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Anton Diakov (bass), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Olivera Miljaković (soprano), Júlia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Justino Díaz (bass-baritone), John van Kesteren (baritone), Milen Paunov (tenor)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper,...
There’s some extremely potent singing from three of the leads (Bumbry, Vickers and Freni’s Micaëla), not least from Bumbry with a subtle range of dynamics that truly suggest both the almost... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Karl Böhm
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Hans Hopf (Lohengrin), Ingrid Bjoner (Elsa von Brabant), Hans Günter Nöcker (Friedrich von Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Josef Metternich (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Gislinde Skroblin (Herzog Gottfried, Elsas Bruder)
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Hans...
the basic sound of this preservation is poor - an unresonant and tubby brass timbre and relatively overloud timpani...There are rewards: the rare chance of hearing the Norwegian Ingrid Bjoner... — More…
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Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Hans Hopf (Emperor), Leonie Rysanek (Empress), Ludwig Weber (Barak, the Dyer), Christel Goltz (Dyer's Wife), Elisabeth Höngen (Nurse), Kurt Böhme (Spirit-Messenger), Karl Terkal (Apparition of a Youth) & Judith Hellwig (Voice of the Falcon)
Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
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Britten: Billy Budd
Bo Skovhus (Billy Budd), Neil Shicoff (Captain Vere), Eric Halfvarson (John Claggart), Robert Bork (Mr Redburn), Wolfgang Bankl (Mr Flint), David Cale Johnson (Mr Ratcliffe), John Dickie (Red Whiskers), Geert Smits (Donald), Alfred Sramek (Dansker), John Nuzzo (Novice), Cosmin Ifrim (Squeak), Janusz...
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