What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Clayton]

WAGNER - Götterdämmerung
Live concert recording, Bayreuth Festival, 12th August 1953

Brünnhilde - Astrid Varnay, Siegfried - Wolfgang Windgassen, Hagen - Josef Greindl, Alberich - Gustav Neidlinger, Gunther - Hermann Uhde, Gutrune - Natalie Hinsch-Gröndahl, Waltraute - Ira Malaniuk, Woglinde - Erika Zimmermann, Wellgunde - Hetty Plümacher, Floßhilde - Gisela Litz, 1. Norne - Maria von Ilosvay, 2. Norne - Ira Malaniuk, 3. Norne - Regina Resnik

[Florestan]

The more I listen to this sung-in-English one, the more I am liking it:


Giving this another try:

[Soave_Fanciulla]

[Florestan]

[Clayton]

For some reason my data banks are a bit corrupt here (here and many, many other places); I've listened to it once but have no emotional attachment. I think I thought that the vocal performance was the greater part and the opera was not so good... I must visit it again.

[Clayton]

Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Josef Greindl (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Thomas Stewart (Gunther), Ludmilla Dvoráková (Gutrune), Martha Mödl (Waltraute), Dorothea Siebert (Woglinde), Helga Dernesch (Wellgunde), Sieglinde Wagner (Flosshilde), Marga Höffgen (Erste Norn), Annelies Burmeister (Zweite Norn), Anja Silja (Dritte Norn)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm
Recorded live in concert in 1967



I think I have a bit of a Götterdämmerung problem here (this and many, many other problems); I think I see some more Ring cycle purchases forthcoming.




damn

add a financial problem on to the list of problems

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

For some reason my data banks are a bit corrupt here (here and many, many other places); I've listened to it once but have no emotional attachment. I think I thought that the vocal performance was the greater part and the opera was not so good... I must visit it again.

I don't like the ending of Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, but vocally it has got to be a wonderful performance. May have to check out some clips online.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

For some reason my data banks are a bit corrupt here (here and many, many other places); I've listened to it once but have no emotional attachment. I think I thought that the vocal performance was the greater part and the opera was not so good... I must visit it again.

Funnily enough I really enjoyed this, and usually I'm not too keen on Donizetti. The singing was top notch, Renee in her prime.

[Clayton]

okay, bumped up in the listening pile.

- - - Updated - - -

not that the planned listening and the actual listening have much in common though!

[Clayton]

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bejun Mehta (Oberon), Íride Martínez (Tytania), Jack Morlen (Puck), Timothy Robinson (Lysander), Jared Holt (Demetrius), Tove Dahlberg (Hermia), Kate Royal (Helena) & Matthew Rose (Bottom)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Trinity Boys Choir, Ilan Volkov

[Clayton]

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Franco Fagioli (Orfeo), Malin Hartelius (Euridice), Emmanuelle de Negri (Amor)
Accentus, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey

[Florestan]

[Clayton]

I heard a part of casta diva played on the picture box and so




never fails to blow me away...

[Clayton]

Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Susanne Resmark (Ortrud), Gerd Grochowski (Friedrich von Telramund), Markus Brück (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich der Vogler)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski



I love the young dashing knight that KFV is and the also young and pretty Elsa that Dasch is.