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2024-03-21 13:00:37
Spit or swallow
Next week Puccini’s La Rondine returns to the Met for the first time in eleven years, so Chris’s Cache offers three quite diverse sopranos as Magda: Ljuba Welitsch, Virginia Zeani, and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs.
2022-07-13 00:55:00
Zachary Woolfe of the Times reported on the Aix-en-Provence Festival the other day, and said this; boldface by me:The most eyebrow-raising casting at Aix this year was the soprano Elsa Dreisig as Salome, a role usually taken by those who also sing Wagnerian heroines. Dreisig, just into her 30s, is better known for far lighter roles like Mozart’s Pamina and Zerlina.Well, I'm not so sure about that, and "Wagnerian heroines" also includes lyric roles such as Elsa. Here's a list of notable historic and recent or current Salomes, some of whom I grabbed from the San Francisco Opera's archive:Maria JeritzaLily DjanelBrenda LewisLjuba Welitsch Maria CebotariEmmy DestinnAstrid VarnayBirgitte NilssonLeonie RysanekInge BorkhAnja SiljaJosephine BarstowGwyneth JonesMontserrat CaballeHildegard BehrensInga NielsenKarita MattilaAsmik GregorianMarlis PetersenPatricia RacetteTeresa Stratas (video and recording studio only)Maria EwingThat's...quite a range of voices.
2020-03-12 12:00:50
On this day in 1949, Ljuba Welitsch sang the title role of Salome on a Met broadcast.
2019-12-07 09:25:00
Strauss - Salome - Ljuba Welitsch - Fritz Reiner (1949)
Richard Strauss ( 1864 - 1949)Ljuba Welitsch, Herbert Janssen, Frederick JagelKerstin Thorborg, Brian Sullivan, Herta GlazMetropolitan Opera Orchestradir: Fritz ReinerGebhardt (2003) 2 CDs - ADD 24 bit remasteringLive recording ,Metropolitan Opera House 12.03.1949(Good sound for a live from 1949)[flac & cue, cover, track list, disc scans] I had read over the years in different publications that Ljuba Welitsch was synonymous with Salome. After listening to this recording I completely agree. There are singers and roles that achieve such symbiosis that one thinks that they are not performing but that they are the real character. Wonderful without any doubt. Although it is a recording from 1949, in this remastering the voices are clearly heard and although the orchestra is in the background, you can perfectly appreciate the wonderful conducting of the maestro Reiner. Unfortunately there isn't a booklet or any information about that opera evening nor the singers but a […]
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