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Recorded in tubby sound at the 1960 Glyndebourne Festival, this release is notable for the Donna Anna of Joan Sutherland. To be sure there are
This will be a must for Sutherland fans. In 1960 she was in first blush of her stupendous career, and she’s in glorious, huge-but-girlish voice.
This muddy-sounding air check from September 19, 1958 is being touted as a rare opportunity to hear the fine Dutch soprano Gré Brouwenstijn as Fidelio,
This live performance, taped in Berlin in September 1961, presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni in German, which is the first strike against it. The singers are
Once heard, the instantly recognizable, bottomless basso profundo of Boris Christoff never can be forgotten. It’s a voice from Middle Earth that can make your
Listeners familiar with the 1966 recording of this opera, also from Bayreuth and featuring three of the same main players–Nilsson, Windgassen, and Waechter–will have an
These early recordings of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf–some from live performances–are very telling. For the most part they represent Schwarzkopf before she became Schwarzkopf, which is
There are some wonderful things about this performance, most of them coming from the Tamino of Fritz Wunderlich, who lives up to his reputation as
Boieldieu was, for want of a better description, a bel-cantist; his vocal lines are decorated and at times virtuosic–particularly in his writing for tenor. But
Numerous incarnations of the 1952 Karajan/Bayreuth Tristan have danced in and out of circulation on CD. Sonically speaking, it’s on par with other archival Bayreuth
