These early Verdi with Gardelli are great.Originally Posted by Marschallin Blair
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
José van Dam (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Alan Opie (Beckmesser), Iris Vermillion (Magdalena), Herbert Lippert (David), René Pape (Pogner), Albert Dohmen (Kothner), Kelly Anderson (Nachtwächter)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Georg Solti
Live concert performance Orchestra Hall, Chicago 23-27 1995
Verdi: Macbeth
Piero Cappuccilli (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Banco), Plácido Domingo (Macduff), Stefania Malagú (Lady in Waiting), Antonio Savastano (Malcolm), Carlo Zardo (Medico), Giovanni Foiani (Servo di Macbeth), Alfredo Mariotti (Sicario), Sergio Fontana (Araldo)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala,
Claudio Abbado
Recorded in the large concrete basement of the uncompleted Centro Telecinematografico Culturale temporarily furbished for purpose though Abbado had to shout a lot (in good humour) to make himself heard. January 1976
(Same venue where Simon Boccanegra was recorded the following year)
Verrett was a great Lady MacBeth, have you seen this video of live performance from same time as that recording also with Abbado conducting, such dramatic fire and swagger....I love it!
Bravissima!
A rare and wonderful occasion my internet connection held stable.
Absolutely a diamond performance!
Fantastico!
I was actually just about to post a thread "I need to have some more Shirley Verrett"...
Which other roles did she blaze with such magnificence?
Post Script
What a young and beautiful Abbado!
Literally a showstopper performance, brava
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
This set contains the arias of both versions created by Mozart (Prague 1787, Vienna 1788)
Johannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Olga Pasichnyk (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolay Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Il Commendatore)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester,
René Jacobs
Recorded Teldex Studio Berlin November 2006
Thanks for the 'imprimatur', sospiro. I salute you. I can't wait for it to come in the mail.
Lovely packaging.Rene Jacobs + Mozart opera + great sound and luxury packaging =
New to this sort of box (Don Giovanni) it took me a while to figure it out.
At first, when I could only find Disc 1, I thought I had bought faulty goods or that the shop had given me a purposely made display only copy.
I am now up to speed on all the new box designs.
However I am still surprised every time I see a disc with colour print and or a picture on it. It makes me smile just by opening the box.
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Lotte Lehmann (Marschallin), Richard Mayr (Baron Ochs), Maria Olszewska (Octavian), Elisabeth Schumann (Sophie), Viktor Madin (Faninal), Hermann Gallos (Valzacchi), Bella Paalen (Annina), Aenne Michalsky (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Karl Ettl (Polizeikommissar)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Robert Heger
Studio recording, 1933
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Thomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin), Michel Sénéchal (Triquet), Gunther Emmerlich (Zaretzky), Jürgen Hartfiel (Captain)
Staatskapelle Dresden,
James Levine
Recording: Lukaskirche, Dresden June 1987
Oh the first time we met...
Only 3 months ago
Your divine beauty...
Just call me Pete
Captured my heart...
blah, blah, blah...
Last edited by Clayton; January 28th, 2014 at 11:07 PM. Reason: forgot to report the important recording location and date
This will be my marching music today
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
How was this? Is it a recommended buy?This will be my marching music today
My listening;
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Grace Bumbry, (Orfeo), Anneliese Rothenberger (Euridice), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Amor)
Leipzig Radio Choir chorus master Horst Neumann
Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig
Václav Neumann
Recording: October 1966, Heilandskirche Leipzig
I hesitate to recommend anything because I know I don't have a discerning ear & I like stuff for all sorts of reasons. But I like this very much. You should be able to get a 2nd hand copy quite cheaply.
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
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