
Vinyl collectors may remember Hans Swarowsky’s 1968 Ring Cycle more […]
Carl Orff’s Prometheus completes his trilogy of Greek tragedies, the two earlier works being Oedipus the Tyrant and Antigone. This is the only one actually
This is a stumper: If you had a 46-year-old recording of a great Isolde in her prime and in one of her greatest roles, in
Stop it already! How much more live Hans Knappertsbusch material in terrible sound can the public tolerate? Here, for instance, is a 1964 concert rendition
Herbert von Karajan’s 1961 Wiener Staatsoper production of Parsifal caused quite a stir, not only for his idiosyncratic stage directing and lighting, but for employing