Volume 4 of CAPRICE’s series of unpublished ‘live’ recordings from the archives of the Royal Swedish Opera is a 2-CD set designed to showcase the art of Brita Hertzberg, a house stalwart who left few commercial recordings and rarely appeared outside Sweden. Here, she sings Amneris in an almost complete ‘Aida’ (the first scene is lost) and Elsa in extracts from ‘Lohengrin’, while her husband Einar Beyron features in a short scene from Parsifal, and many world-famous singers appear in the cast lists.

Artists

Birgit Nilsson (Aida), Elisabeth Söderström (Priestess), Sigurd Björling (Amonasro), Leon Björker (The King), Brita Hertzberg (Amneris), Set Svanholm (Radames), Sven Nilsson (Ramfis), Brita Hertzberg (Elsa), Set Svanholm (Lohengrin), Kerstin Löfgren, Elisabeth Söderström or Astrid Ohlson, Ingeborg Kjellgren, Kerstin Meyer (Four Esquires), Einar Beyron (Parsifal), Joel Berglund (Gurnemanz), Margareta Bergström (Kundry)

Royal Swedish Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling, Nils Grevillius