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This mostly fine performance of Lohengrin from Munich in 1963 is, I believe, making its first appearance on CD with this Orfeo release. The mono
This was the second release in the much-awaited, almost legendary
Here is a collection of Wagner’s major operas, Parsifal excepted
This first “authorized” edition of Clemens Krauss’ 1953 Bayreuth Ring cycle purportedly stems from the original Bavarian Radio master broadcast tapes. As such, we might
This is a famous performance, one that has not previously been issued. The recording engineer was Decca’s John Culshaw and the set was supposed to
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.
Götz Friedrich’s 1981 Elektra film sets Richard Strauss’ opera in a dark and dingy abandoned 20th-century factory populated by grungy denizens in psuedo-Greek garb. Elektra
The year was 1953, and all was right with the world. Germany, or at least its Western half, was in the full swing of post-War
You’ll buy this for the rare Leonora of otherwise-known-as-Wagnerian soprano Astrid Varnay, and you’ll get an exciting performance of this opera as a bonus. It
Astrid Varnay was the leading Wagnerian soprano in the years between Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson. This Original Masters set featuring recordings made between 1954
