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Historical Gems: The Golden Age of Wagner at the Met

Robert Levine

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Here is a collection of Wagner’s major operas, Parsifal excepted […]

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Album Title: Wagner at the Met
  • WAGNER, RICHARD:
    Der fliegende Holländer; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    Soloists: Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Astrid Varnay, Margaret Harshaw, Victoria de los Angeles; Hans Hopf, Lauritz Melchior, Set Svanholm, Ramon Vinay; Karin Branzell, Kirsten Thorberg; George London, Hans Hotter, Julius Huehn, Friedrich Schorr, Paul Schöffler, Alexander Sved, Jerome Hines, Emmanuel List; others

    Artur Bodanzky, Fritz Reiner, Erich Leinsdorf, Fritz Stiedry, George Szell/The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

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