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Wagner - Die Walküre - Melchior-Traubel -Leinsdorf Naxos
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior, Astrid Varnay, Friedrich Schorr, Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Thorberg Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra dir: Erich Leinsdorf Naxos (2000) 8.110058-60 ADD 3 CDs Metropolitan, broadcast on 6th December, 1941 (Good sound) [flac & cue, inlays,track list & disc scans] Review: "This sizzler of a Die Walküre, one of the finest of the opera’s many vintage broadcasts from the Met stage, has everything going for it. Let’s start with the women. Astrid Varnay was an 11th-hour replacement for the indisposed Lotte Lehmann. Making every word count, Varnay’s big voice welds Sieglinde’s bottled-up passion and Wagner’s urgent lyricism with riveting authority. You’d never know that this inexperienced 23-year-old singer had never before sung on stage. As Fricka, the great mezzo Kirsten Thorborg finds a vulnerable subtext beneath her character’s “morals police” surface. As for Helen Traubel’s […]
2017-01-17 21:56:47
A point upon a map of fog
[…] are new to the work additional points of engagement, San Francisco Opera will partner with Bay Area cultural institutions to present myriad activities during the 2018 Ring Festival, including lectures and other events. The full calendar of ancillary programs will be announced at a later date. For more information, visit sfopera.com/ring . Regarded as one of the world’s leading companies in presenting the Ring, San Francisco Opera first produced Wagner’s masterwork in 1935 with Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund/Siegfried), Elisabeth Rethberg (Sieglinde) and Kirsten Flagstad (Brünnhilde). Later stagings followed in 1972, 1985, 1990, 1999 and 2011. For details of past San Francisco Opera presentations of Turandot, Elektra, La Traviata, Manon and the Ring, visit the online performance archive at archive.sfopera.com .
2016-02-12 15:30:25
Il core vi dono
[…] Anima Allegra. “Gayety is its theme, and its lesson is that life perceptibly brightens if you are visited by a sufficiently lively niece.” Perhaps the opera caught the spirit of its time; another review indicates it went over well with the “Monday nighters” of New York society. But after ten performances in 1923-24, Anima Allegra vanished from the Met’s repertory. Lucrezia Bori and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi headed its deluxe Met premiere cast. 1924: Hungarian bass-baritone Friedrich Schorr made an acclaimed debut, singing Wolfram in Tannhäuser. The cast was otherwise notable for Maria Jeritza’s Elisabeth. In one of several raves, the Tribune’s reviewer wrote of this new Wolfram’s “delicacy of coloring, refinement and warmth of tone too seldom met in Wagnerian performances.” Schorr would distinguish Met performances of Wagner, Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven through 1943. 1936: There would be no whispering of sweet nothings on the stage at 39th and Broadway, with […]
2015-06-01 09:25:40
[…] Schubert’s 5 German Dances, Arvo Part’s Tabula Rasa, Georgyi Ligeti’s Concert Romanesc, Zhou Long’s Chinese Folk Song Suite and Dvorak’s Czech Suite at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free, early arrival advised 6/23, 8 PM haunting, intense, wickedly tuneful Nashville gothic songwriter Jessie Kilguss and her band at Bowery Electric, $10 6/23, 8 PM Katya Mihailova , piano plays music of Messiaen, Satie and Josquin)followed by indie classical/art-rock chanteuse/multi-instrumentalist Colleen a.k.a. Cecile Schorr at Subculture, $15 adv tix rec 6/23-28, 8/10 PM cult fave bassist/producer Bill Laswell plays a weeklong stand at the Stone, $20. Choice pick: two duo sets on 6/25, the first with John Zorn, the second just bass and drums with Laswell and Milford Graves. 6/23, 8ish Australian darkwave songstress Wendy Rule at Caffe Vivaldi 6/23, 8:30 PM art-rock/avant garde rocker Olga Bell ‘s Krai project at South St. Seaport 6/23 low key […]
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