Wiener Staatsoper Live
Live recordings of the Vienna State Opera.
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedMartti Talvela (King Henry), Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Claire Watson (Elsa), Walter Berry (Telramund), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Eberhard Waechter (Herald), Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Sperlbauer, Herbert Lackner & Ljubomir Pantscheff
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Claire Watson excels her studio performances, singing Elsa with floods of pure tone that rarely falters...[Ludwig's] 'Entweihte Götter!' literally stops the show...Waechter makes a keen Herald,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Special offer. Einem: Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Horst Stein
Von Einem’s music chases Dürrenmatt’s scene-setting most (almost too) faithfully with colourful often loud tone-painting…The performance sounds well-organised (by conductor Stein) and fluent... —
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Wolfgang Windgassen (Aegisth), Eberhard Waechter (Orest), Fredrick Guthrie (Der Pfleger der Orest), Margareta Sjöstedt (Vertraute), Margarita Lilova (Schleppträgerin), Gerhard Unger (Junger Diener), Herbert Lackner...
[Nilsson] is achingly tender in the recognition scene with Orestes, vividly obsequious as she lures Aegisthus to his death and tireless in her final, fatal dance...like Nilsson, [Resnik] really... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Sena Jurinac (Butterfly), Ermanno Lorenzi (Pinkerton), Kostas Paskalis (Sharpless), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (Suzuki) & Gundula Janowitz (Kate Pinkerton)
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Berislav Klobucar
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Verdi: Macbeth
RecommendedSherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Christa Ludwig (Lady Macbeth), Karl Ridderbusch (Banquo), Carlo Cossutta (Macduff), Gildis Flossman (Dama) & Ewald Aichberger (Malcolm)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Lady Macbeth has rarely seemed more of a Lady than in Ludwig’s hands on this live 1970 recording from Vienna – her arch-manipulator is regal, elegant and icily pragmatic right up until the final... —
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
1997 - 2014: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss
Johan Botha (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), James Rutherford (Sachs), Angela Denoke (Kundry), Marjana Lipovšek (Amme), Ricarda Merbeth (Daphne), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Valentina Nafornită (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta)
Orchester...
The recorded sound is produced to a consistently pleasing quality, and one does sense the special atmosphere of the live performance. Live at Wiener Staatsoper, this first-rate collection is... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Ramón Vargas (Don Carlos), Alastair Miles (Philippe II), Bo Skovhus (Rodrigue), Nadja Michael (La Princesse Eboli), Iano Tamar (Elisabeth de Valois), Simon Yang (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Cornelia Salje (Thibault), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Un Moine), Benedikt Kobel (Le Compte de Lerme), Inna Los (Un Voix...
This is an issue of major importance, which all lovers of Verdi should acquire, since it will enable them to hear about 45 minutes of his most mature music which is otherwise not available…... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Opera Choice
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Leonie Rysanek
Leonie Rysanek (soprano), George London, Lotte Rysanek, Christa Ludwig (Octavian) & Hilda de Groote (Sophie)
Josef Krips & Karl Böhm
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Vienna State Opera Gala 2005
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildikó Raimondi (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Don Ottavio), Soile Isokoski (Donna Elvira) Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Boaz Daniel (Masetto), Soile Isokoski (Marschallin), Angelika Kirchschlager (Octavian)
Genia...
Last November the Vienna State Opera celebrated the 50th anniversary of the house's re-opening after the damage of the war had been repaired. The gala concert included extracts from all the... —
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Anton Dermota: Vienna State Opera Recordings 1944-81
Anton Dermota (tenor), Josef Witt, Sena Jurinac (Elvira), Lisa Della Casa (Anna), Irmgard Seefried (Zerlina), Erich Kunz (Leporello), Walter Berry (Masetto), Erich Kunz (Guglielmo), Paul Schöffler (Don Alfonso), Irmgard Seefried (Fiordiligi), Paul Schöffler (Hans Sachs), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marzelline),...
