Conductor/orchestra: Carlo Maria Giulini, RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Cast: Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Giovanni), Sesto Bruscantini (Leporello), Gundula Janowitz (Donna Anna), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Alfredo Kraus (Don Ottavio), Olivera Miliakovic (Zerlina), Walter Monachesi (Masetto), Dimitri Petkov (Commendatore)
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Chorus
Luba Orgonasova, Erich Wottrich, Christine Schäfer, Matti Salminen, Wolfgang Holzmair, Gilles Cachemaille, Kurt Moll, Ekkehard Schall
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
past several days:
Currently on this one:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Karl Böhm; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, RIAS Kammerchor
Fritz Wunderlich, Evelyn Lear, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Franz Crass, Roberta Peters, Friedrich Lenz, Lisa Otto, Hans Hotter, Hildegard Hillebrecht, Cvetka Ahlin, Sieglinde Wagner, James King, Martti Talvela, et. al.
The first complete opera recording I purchased, way back in the early '70s.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
For my walk today, this:
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"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
And tonight this, via YouTube.
"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
Pinchas Steinberg; Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Broadcasting Chorus
Eva Marton, Francisco Araiza, Alan Titus, Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, Julie Kaufmann, Birgit Calm (Afra), Michele Pertusi
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