Offer, Strauss, R: Intermezzo, Op. 72

Hanny Steffek (Christine), Hermann Prey (Robert Storch), Ferry Gruber (Baron Lummer), Anny Felbermayer (Anna), Alfred Poell (Notar), Judith Hellwig (his wife), Waldeman Kmentt (Stroh), Oskar Czerwenka (Kommerzienrat), Alois Pernerstorfer (Justizrat) & Ludwig Welter (Kammersänger)

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Release Date: 26th May 2008
Catalogue No: C765082i
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Wiener Staatsoper Live
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

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Strauss, R: Intermezzo, Op. 72

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Anny Felbermayer (soprano), Judith Hellwig (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (vocals), Alois Pernerstorfer (baritone), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Ferry Gruber (tenor), Hanny Steffek (soprano), Ludwig Welter (vocals), Helene Vopenka (vocals), Alfred Poell (baritone), Hermann Prey (bass-baritone), Oscar Czerwenka (bass), Irene Walach (vocals)
Wiener Staatsoper
Joseph Keilberth
Recorded: 1 May 1963
Recording Venue: Live recording, Vienna, Austria

Act I Scene 1: Anna, Anna! Wo bleibt denn die dumme Gans? (Christine, Robert, Anna)

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Act I Scene 1: Nun wollen wir frisieren! (Christine, Anna, Franzl, Housemaid, Cook)

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Act I Scene 1: Interlude

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Act I Scene 2: Bahn frei! … Doch, aber Sie waren zu schnell (Christine, Baron Lummer)

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Act I Scene 2: Interlude: Waltz

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Act I Scene 3: Ich kann nicht mehr! (Christine, Baron Lummer)

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Act I Scene 4: Wissen Sie, mein Mann, der immer an der Arbeit sitzt (Christine, Notary Woman)

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Act I Scene 4: Interlude

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Act I Scene 5: Es ist wirklich ein sehr netter, ungeheuer bescheidener Mensch (Christine, Cook, Housemaid)

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Act I: Guten Tag! Entschuld'gen sei (Christine, Baron Lummer)

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Act I: Durfte ich ihnen ein kleines Anliegen unterbreiten? (Baron Lummer, Christine)

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Act I: Ich sagen ihnen: Mein Mann ist der beste Mensch auf der Welt (Christine, Baron Lummer)

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Act I Scene 5: Ein hubscher Mensch! (Christine)

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Act I Scene 6: Frau Notar! Können Sie mir meinen Koffer heraufschicken (Baron Lummer, Notary Woman, Resi)

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Act I Scene 7: Tausend Mark will er haben! (Christine, Baron Lummer, Anna)

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Act I Scene 8: Interlude

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Act I: Mein lieber, lieber Bubi! (Christine, Franzl)

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Act II Scene 1: Einleitung - Ach! Sie kennen sie nicht, Herr Justizrat! (Chorus, Judge)

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Act II: Guten Abend, meine Herrn! (Robert, Chorus, Judge)

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Act II: Was gibt's? Doch nichts Unangenehmes? (Judge, Robert, Chorus)

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Act II Scene 1: Interlude

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Act II Scene 2: Guten Tag, Herr Notar! (Christine, Notary)

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Act II Scene 2: Interlude

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Act II Scene 3: Prelude - Es ist einfach zum Rasendwerden! (Christine)

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Act II Scene 3: Interlude

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Act II Scene 4: Ah! Anna! Ich hatte den Baron doch nicht … (Christine, Anna, Housemaid)

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Act II Scene 5: Interude

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Act II Scene 5: Er kommt! Herrgott, wie ich mich freue (Christine, Housemaid, Robert)

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Act II Scene 6: Da bin ich, gnad'ge Frau! (Baron Lummer, Christine)

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Act II: Wer war denn das? (Robert, Christine)

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If singers loved working with Joseph Keilberth [1908-1968], it was because he brought to all his opera performances a deep knowledge of the work in question, a stick technique that left them in no doubt as to his intentions and a highly considerate musical sensitivity. Even in luxuriantly scored works he never lost his ability to ensure a perfect balance between stage and pit.These were ideal conditions for a work like Richard Strauss's 'bourgeois comedy', Intermezzo, for which the composer wrote his own libretto - only the second time that he had done so since the failure of his first opera, Guntram, 30 years earlier. In his depiction of a marital row between Court Kapellmeister Robert Storch and his wife, Strauss did not fight shy of ironic allusions to his own connubial domesticity.The Vienna State Opera mounted a new production of this rarely heard work at the Theater an der Wien in 1963, when Keilberth and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra had at their disposal a team of singers who, thanks to their excellent diction and acting skills, were able to capture the conversational tone that is required but which is so difficult to achieve. Leading the ensemble is Hanny Steffek as the Kapellmeister's wife, Christine. She enjoyed an international career as a Strauss soprano, most notably as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, which she sang at Covent Garden under Solti in 1959.

Alongside her is Hermann Prey as Storch, a role tailor-made for him both physically and vocally, so much so, indeed, that he was still cutting a fine figure in the part 25 years later in the composer's home city of Munich.The two tenors in the 1963 Intermezzo,Waldemar Kmentt and Ferry Gruber, had equally long careers, making their mark in roles that serve initially to fuel the petty jealousies between Storch and his wife before ultimately leaving the coast clear for a suitably harmonious ending

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Offer, Strauss, R: Intermezzo, Op. 72

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